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| Ch5. All data used by a function must be passed in as parameters to the function. |
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| False. Functions have access to all the system data and functions and can also reach global data directly. |
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| Ch5. The name of the first function in an m-file must match the name of the file containing its definition. |
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| False. Although this ought to be True. MATLAB calls user-defined functions by the name of the m-file, and ignores the name specified there. |
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| Ch5. The first documentation line appears in the Current Directory listing. |
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| Ch5. Functions must consume at least one parameter. |
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| False. Functions can be defined with no parameters required. |
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| Ch5. The calling code must provide assignments for every result returned from a function. |
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| False. Any result for which a variable is not provided by the caller is ignored. |
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| Ch5. The names of auxiliary functions must being with local_ |
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| False. This is merely a convention suggested to clarify the source of their definition. |
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| Ch5. _____ permits a code block to be packaged and referred to collectively rather than individually. |
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| Procedural Abstraction or Encapsulation |
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| Ch5. Values of the ________ parameters are copied to define the ________ parameters inside the function. |
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| Ch5. If more than one result is to be returned from a function, they are defined in a(n) ________. |
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| vector-like container of variable names |
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| Ch5. ________ describes the situation where the variables within a function are not visible from outside, and the function is unable to cause side effects by making assignments to outside variables. |
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| Ch5. Calling code can only reach the ________ function in an m-file. Other functions in the m-file can only be called from the _______ or _______. |
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| first; first function; other auxiliary functions in the same file |
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| Ch6. Casting changes the value of a piece of data. |
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| False. Casting changes the way the computer views a piece of data without changing it. |
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| Ch6. The ASCII code maps individual characters to their internal numerical representation. |
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| Ch6. B/c the single quote mark (') delimits strings, you cannot use it within a string. |
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| False. It can be represented within a string by inserting two successive quote marks:(' ') |
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| Ch6. If you attempt mathematical operations on a character string, MATLAB will throw an error. |
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| False. MATLAB will automatically cast the string to its ASCII values first |
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| Ch6. The function disp(...) can display multiple values to the Command window. |
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| True. But they have to be explicitly converted to characters and concatenated into one string |
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| Ch6. The function strcmp(...) throws an error if the two strings are of unequal length, unless one of them is a single character. |
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| False. Unequal length strings are reported as not being equal |
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| Ch6. The switch statement will correctly compare strings of unequal length in the case tests. |
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| Ch6. Numerical values are stored in MATLAB in ________ for efficient numerical computation. |
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| a special internal representation |
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| Ch6. Most common _________,________ and many _______ are represented in ASCII by the numbers _________. |
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| characters; numbers; punctuation marks; 0-127 |
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| Ch6.The function _______ casts a string to a vector of the same length as the string containing the numerical mapping of ________. |
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| Ch6. The function fprintf(...) requires a(n) _______ that defines exactly how the resulting string should be formatted and a variable number of _______. |
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| format control string; value parameters |
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| Ch6. Since the ________ statement tests a logical expression, it _________ test strings of unequal length. |
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| Ch6. A special version of the cast function _______ accepts strings with different lengths, _________, and stores them in an array of characters. |
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| char(...); pads them with blanks |
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| Ch7. Of all the collective operations defined for numerical arrays, only logical operations can be applied to a whole cell array. |
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| False. None of the collective operations defined for numerical arrays can be applied to cell arrays or structures. |
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| Ch7. A cell array or a structure can contain any legal MATLAB object. |
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| Ch7. You gain access to the contents of a cell by using, {...}. |
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| Ch7. Since the contents of a structure are heterogeneous, we can store other structures in any structure. |
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| Ch7. The statement rmfield(str, 'price') removes the field 'price' and its value from the structure str. |
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| False. It returns a new structure with the field and value removed. |
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| Ch7. The statement getfield(str, ) returns the value of the specified field. |
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| Ch7. You cannot extract and process all of the values of a field in a structure array. |
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| False. If stra is a structure array with the field data, the expression {stra.data} will extract all the values into a cell array. |
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| Ch7. To perform any operations on the contents of a heterogeneous collection, the items must be _______ and if necessary _________. |
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| extracted one at a time; replaced |
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| Ch7. Cell arrays can be treated for the purpose of concatenation and slicing as ________ of _________. |
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| Ch7. The assignment B{3} = {42} results in the third entry in the cell array B being a(n) ________. |
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| Ch7. If a variable called field contains the name of a field in a structure str, the expression _______ will set the value of that field to 42. |
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| Ch7. MATLAB has built-in function _________ that consumes pairs of entries, each consisting of a(n) ________ and a(n) ________, and produces a structure array. |
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| struct(...); field name as a string; cell array of field contents |
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