anyway to clear variable in Matlab workspace from app?

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Yu Li 2019-8-31

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评论： Walter Roberson 2023-4-19

Hi:

is there anyway to clear variable in Matlab workspace from app designer?

an workaround I know is to use 'assign' function, to assign an empty value to that variable. but I want know how to clear it.

Thanks!

Yu

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Adam Danz 2019-8-31

There should be no need to clear variables from any workspace from within a different workspace. If there is a need to do this, it raises red flags that something is being done in a bad way. Could you explain why you need to clear an external workspace?

Adam Danz 2019-8-31

编辑：Adam Danz 2019-8-31

There is rarely a need to clear variables from within a function but sometimes it useful to do so. There should never be a need to clear variables in a different workspace. Without knowing more about what you're doing, the best help I can offer is trying to clean up any reasons why someone would need to do this in the first place.

What workspace is the variable in (the base workspace?), how did it get there, and why does it need to be cleared from within a function (which has its own workspace).

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evalin('base', 'clear VARIABLENAME')

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massimo Petrarca 2023-4-18

编辑：Walter Roberson 2023-4-18

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Hi Walter,

thanks, I understand the point but I do not undestand how to make it work .

app.PLUTODropDown.Value This selection is a vector already in the base workspace. For example the output is the Y.

so when I write : dasalvare=evalin('base',app.PLUTODropDown.Value) I am expecting that dasalvare=Y

and therefore when i write: evalin('base', 'clear dasalvare')

I am expecting the action to take place in base ws where the action clear acts on the variable Y.

Where am I wrong?

The first step definitly since if I write in the code evalin('base', 'clear Y') then it works.

But I want that the dropdown menu reading the vector in the base WS pass its values to the clear function acting in the base WS. I underrstad I am missing ht econnection between the different space but ...

The reason why I do not get it is because the action below works fine i.e.

I read fromo two dropwodn two vector from the base ws and then I make an operation and store it in the base ws.

function DIVIONEButtonPushed(app, event)
Y=evalin('base',app.PLUTODropDown.Value) 
X=evalin('base',app.PIPPODropDown.Value) 
app.risultato=Y./X;
assignin('base','y_div_x',app.risultato)
end

thank yor explaining

Walter Roberson 2023-4-18

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@massimo Petrarca

Supposing that app.PLUTODropDown.Value contains the scalar string object "Y", then

dasalvare=evalin('base',app.PLUTODropDown.Value)

would be the same (for this purpose) as if you had evaluated

dasalvare=evalin('base',"Y")

which would look inside the base workspace for a variable named Y and would store the value of that variable into the variable dasalvare in the current workspace (the workspace of the function callback.) For example if Y contained numeric 123 then dasalvare in the local workspace would contain numeric 123. dasalvare would not contain the name Y, it would contain the value of Y .

evalin('base', 'clear dasalvare')

would then ask the base workspace to clear the variable named dasalvare but there is no such variable in the base workspace. This command would not ask the base workspace to clear Y -- remember dasalvare does not even contain the name Y, it contains the value stored in Y . And besides, you are using command/function duality so the call would be equivalent to

evalin('base', "clear('dasalvare')")

The value of dasalvare is not used.

Maybe you want something like

dasalvare = app.PLUTODropDown.Value;
evalin('base', "clear " + dasalvare)

that would have the potential to execute "clear Y" inside the base workspace.

massimo Petrarca 2023-4-19

编辑：Walter Roberson 2023-4-19

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Hello Walter,

thank you.

Your explanation is clear and the last sugestion works.

I do not know then why the command evalin('base', 'clear app.PLUTODropDown.Value') does not work. Should't it be similar to yours? Definitly not, since this does not work but I have tried before when I uderstood that the problem was the one you said. (yor first explanation)

the app.PLUTODropDown.Value gives me the name of the selected variable from the dropdownmenu. For example it returs 'field'. So it has the name of the variable to delete.

I would also like to ask you, how can I list in the dropdown the variable that are created within the matlab.app application and not those that are in the base WS? Probably the same roputine I am using would work with the proper indication of the proper workspace that I do not find how it is called.

To update the dropdown menu with the variable from base WS I use the routine:

function update_menu(app, ~, ~)
vars = evalin('base', 'whos');
cell_array = cell(size(vars));
for i=1:length(vars)
    cell_array{i} = vars(i).name;
end
app.PLUTODropDown.Items = cell_array;
app.PIPPODropDown.Items = cell_array;
end
function results = UIFigureCloseRequest(app, event)
% Close request function: UIFigure
stop(app.menu_timer);
delete(app.menu_timer);
delete(app)
end

Thank yoy very much as you explanation poited me tho the rid mind direction, but now the problem is finding the right command combination based on their logic.

Massimo

Walter Roberson 2023-4-19

Please see https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/command-vs-function-syntax.html to get more information about why evalin('base', 'clear app.PLUTODropDown.Value') is not going to work.

Walter Roberson 2023-4-19

I would also like to ask you, how can I list in the dropdown the variable that are created within the matlab.app application and not those that are in the base WS?

You can use properties to find the list of variables for the app object.

You will find that in practice most of them should not be eligible for clearing.

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R.G. 2019-8-31

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To clear variable use 'clear' function instead, ex:

clear('v')

where 'v' is variable name.

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