Re: who called me?

[Søren Hauberg]

ons, 22 10 2008 kl. 11:30 -0400, skrev John W. Eaton:
> On 22-Oct-2008, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 
> |   Assuming I have a function 'f1', how can I get the name of whatever
> | function called 'f1'?
> |   I've tried to do this with a combination of 'evalin' and 'mfilename':
> | 
> |     function f1 ()
> |       who_called_me = evalin ('caller', 'mfilename ()')
> |     end
> | 
> | but that just gives me the name of 'f1'.
> 
> With the current development sources, you can use
> 
>   function f1 ()
>     x = dbstack ();
>     if (numel (x) > 1)
>       caller = x(2).name
>     else
>       caller = "base"
>     endif
>   endfunction

Thanks! Works like a charm.

Søren