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Re: how to check if this exists


From: Stefan van der Walt
Subject: Re: how to check if this exists
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 01:51:54 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.9i

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:56:40PM +0000, Corbin Champion wrote:
> If I create a variable x and x has an element
> x.name = "tom"
> if I do exist('x') I get a value of 1....good, but
> if I do exist('x.name') I get a value of 0 even though this exists.

Looks like x.name is not a variable, so I expect you are seeing the
result of

exist("tom")

Rather try

isfield(x, "name")

Regards
Stéfan



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