SUBSREF Overloaded Class Indexing
Section: Object Oriented Programming
Usage
This method is called for expressions of the formc = a(b), c = a{b}, c = a.b
and overloading the subsref
method allows you
to define the meaning of these expressions for
objects of class a
. These expressions are
mapped to a call of the form
b = subsref(a,s)
where s
is a structure array with two fields. The
first field is
-
type
is a string containing either'()'
or'{}'
or'.'
depending on the form of the call. -
subs
is a cell array or string containing the the subscript information.
b = a(5).foo{:}
, the s
array contains
the following entries
s(1).type = '()' s(1).subs = {5} s(2).type = '.' s(2).subs = 'foo' s(3).type = '{}' s(3).subs = ':'