How do I set default values for functions parameters in MATLAB?

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There isn’t a direct way to do this like you’ve attempted.

The usual approach is to use “varargs” and check against the number of arguments. Something like:

function f(arg1, arg2, arg3)

  if nargin < 3
    arg3 =   'some default'
  end

end

There are a few fancier things you can do with isempty, etc., and you might want to look at MATLAB central for some packages that bundle these sorts of things.

You might have a look at varargin, nargchk, etc. They’re useful functions for this sort of thing. varargs allow you to leave a variable number of final arguments, but this doesn’t get you around the problem of default values for some/all of them.

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