Steven Lord
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I joined The MathWorks in the Technical Support department during the summer of 2001 and transferred into the Quality Engineering department in March of 2004. I now work qualifying the core MATLAB numerical functions (PLUS, MINUS, LU, FFT, ODE45, etc.) Professional Interests: mathematics, MATLAB For assistance with MATLAB question please post to MATLAB Answers or contact Technical Support using the Contact Us link in the upper-right corner of the page instead of contacting me directly.
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pathdef and resulting path unreasonably long
If you have a lot of products and/or add-ons in your installation, the path may have a lot of entries. V = ver; S = split(path...
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fread a double that's been broken up into four 16 bit words
Let's make four random 16 bit integers. A = randi([intmin('uint16'), intmax('uint16')], 1, 4, 'uint16') Now we can typecast th...
15 hours ago | 2
How to read in m-files into a Matlab-generated-Exe
From the documentation "MATLAB Runtime only works on MATLAB code that was encrypted when the deployable archive was built. Any f...
16 hours ago | 0
Where can I download matlab/simulink example projects?
You're probably not going to be able to run the whole example without all the products listed in the box in the upper-right corn...
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How do I use 'intersection' to get the overlapping line between two polyshapes?
These two polyshapes touch but do not intersect. x1 = [1 4 4 1]; y1 = [1 1 4 4]; x2 = [4 6 6 4]; y2 = [2 2 3 3]; poly1 = po...
15 days ago | 1
MATLAB crash during matrix multiplication in Matlab Function
Can you confirm that you've looked in the locations given in this Answers post and cannot find any crash log files created at th...
19 days ago | 0
String to double conversion misunderstanding
The mistake is that you're using command form for calling the class function, not function form. These: class ACVoltageR class...
23 days ago | 2
What is the proper way to clean up internal timers when deleting a MATLAB class object?
Depending on exactly how you're creating the timer object, if you're using release R2024b or later perhaps creating a weak refer...
26 days ago | 0
Determine which delaunayTriangulation Constraints correspond to input constraints?
I have not looked at the spatialgraph2D tool Matt J suggested, but I suspect you can do the same thing using functionality inclu...
26 days ago | 0
CAT12 fails in MATLAB R2025b due to WebGL/ANGLE OpenGL incompatibility, but works in R2023a
The Release Notes state, among other things: "Calling the opengl (R2025a) function has no effect. To query the graphics renderer...
1 month ago | 0
does installing toolbox that has different version than your matlab program cause a problem
For MathWorks toolboxes, I believe the Installer and Add-Ons Manager ought to disallow you from "mixing and matching" releases. ...
1 month ago | 0
Unbale to write scrips and program in MATLAB for application level
I suggest you start with the free MATLAB Onramp tutorial to quickly learn the essentials of MATLAB.
1 month ago | 2
Mixing name/value pair syntax
Suppose I show you this call. How would you as a human interpret it, and how would MATLAB interpret it (were it syntactically le...
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I want to define inputs for the function quantized_signal
Are you asking in general about how to call functions in MATLAB? If so you probably want to look at this section of the Getting ...
1 month ago | 0
Calculate mean and standard deviation from 30-years of global wind data
Consider using groupsummary, specifying the groupbins input argument to control how the data is discretized into bins.
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can we give access to the external users
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How to keep formatting when cutting and pasting to office
Try right-clicking in the email and selecting "Keep Source Formatting" under Paste Option in the context menu that comes up.
1 month ago | 0
Timetables not fully supported by plot tools?
Let's say that with basic fitting, you wanted to fit a quadratic (y = a(1)*x^2+a(2)*x+a(3)) to your data. If the x data was doub...
2 months ago | 0
Dealing with Duration format
Use detectImportOptions to see how MATLAB would decide to import the data by default based on the contents of the file. Once you...
2 months ago | 0
Request to rehost MATLAB network license (1102419) to new server IP
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2 months ago | 0
Why are the functions constSincNet and SincNetLayer absent in the "Speaker Identification Using Custom SincNet" example?
Please click on the "Copy Command" button in the upper-right corner of the example page then paste that command into MATLAB and ...
3 months ago | 0
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webread can't read the table of a website
Are you trying to read in the data sets? If so I'd look at the "Download Dataset" link in the upper-right corner. Once you have ...
3 months ago | 0
Add a datestr to duration data to get in datestr format
Rather than using date strings or serial date numbers, use datetime arrays. x = 1:10; dt = datetime(2025, 12, x); y = x.^2; ...
3 months ago | 1
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Find position of cell array within another cell array or table or in a structure
Are you using a graph or digraph object? Do you have the additional struct information stored as a separate variable or have you...
3 months ago | 0
Why does uint64([9007199254740993]) results in 9007199254740992? What happens to the least significant bit?
MATLAB recognizes this: x = uint64(9007199254740993) as a literal constant being used to construct a uint64 variable. It doesn...
3 months ago | 2
Using fprintf for complex numbers
You may want to use + in the format specifier. A = [3+4i, 5, 6-7i] fprintf("%d%+di\t", [real(A); imag(A)])
3 months ago | 0
I want to suppress: useCS = logical 1 in command window
You can tell MATLAB to enter debug mode when unsuppressed output occurs. Use this to determine where the semicolon on the line t...
3 months ago | 0
what's my license number?
If you're asking how to find your license number inside MATLAB, call the license function. If you're trying to use your company...
3 months ago | 1
Returning line before after searching for pattern
A is a logical array with the same number of rows as the string array readfile. So if you remove/ignore the first element of A, ...
3 months ago | 0
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Why does having only one row in table, break dot indexing?
Let's make some sample data. C = cell(10, 1); actualHeights = zeros(size(C)); for k = 1:height(C) h = randi(10); ac...
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