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exists
checks variable existence
Calling Sequence
exists(name [,where])
Arguments
- name
a character string
- where
an optional character with possible values:
'l'
(local),'n'
(nolocal) and'a'
(all). The default value is'all'.
Description
exists(name)
returns 1
if the
variable named name
exists and 0
otherwise.
Caveats: a function which uses exists
may return
a result which depends on the environment!
exists(name,'local')
returns 1
if the variable named name
exists in the environment of
the current function and 0
otherwise.
exists(name,'nolocal')
returns
1
if the variable named name
exists
in any level of the calling environment (including the Scilab shell main level) of the current function and
0
otherwise.
Warning: the exists function does not check if a variable exists in the global namespace.
Examples
deff('foo(x)',.. ['disp([exists(''a12''),exists(''a12'',''local'')])' 'disp([exists(''x''),exists(''x'',''local'')])']) foo(1) a12=[];foo(1) function level1() function level2() disp(exists("a","all")); disp(exists("a","local")); disp(exists("a","nolocal")); endfunction level2() endfunction function go() a=1; level1() endfunction go()
See Also
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