<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Structures with Mex-Files (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))</title> <meta name="description" content="Structures with Mex-Files (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="keywords" content="Structures with Mex-Files (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" rel="index" title="Concept Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Mex_002dFiles.html#Mex_002dFiles" rel="up" title="Mex-Files"> <link href="Sparse-Matrices-with-Mex_002dFiles.html#Sparse-Matrices-with-Mex_002dFiles" rel="next" title="Sparse Matrices with Mex-Files"> <link href="Cell-Arrays-with-Mex_002dFiles.html#Cell-Arrays-with-Mex_002dFiles" rel="prev" title="Cell Arrays with Mex-Files"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="octave.css"> </head> <body lang="en"> <a name="Structures-with-Mex_002dFiles"></a> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Sparse-Matrices-with-Mex_002dFiles.html#Sparse-Matrices-with-Mex_002dFiles" accesskey="n" rel="next">Sparse Matrices with Mex-Files</a>, Previous: <a href="Cell-Arrays-with-Mex_002dFiles.html#Cell-Arrays-with-Mex_002dFiles" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Cell Arrays with Mex-Files</a>, Up: <a href="Mex_002dFiles.html#Mex_002dFiles" accesskey="u" rel="up">Mex-Files</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <a name="Structures-with-Mex_002dFiles-1"></a> <h4 class="subsection">A.2.5 Structures with Mex-Files</h4> <p>The basic function to create a structure in a mex-file is <code>mxCreateStructMatrix</code> which creates a structure array with a two dimensional matrix, or <code>mxCreateStructArray</code>. </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">mxArray *mxCreateStructArray (int ndims, int *dims, int num_keys, const char **keys); mxArray *mxCreateStructMatrix (int rows, int cols, int num_keys, const char **keys); </pre></div> <p>Accessing the fields of the structure can then be performed with <code>mxGetField</code> and <code>mxSetField</code> or alternatively with the <code>mxGetFieldByNumber</code> and <code>mxSetFieldByNumber</code> functions. </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">mxArray *mxGetField (const mxArray *ptr, mwIndex index, const char *key); mxArray *mxGetFieldByNumber (const mxArray *ptr, mwIndex index, int key_num); void mxSetField (mxArray *ptr, mwIndex index, const char *key, mxArray *val); void mxSetFieldByNumber (mxArray *ptr, mwIndex index, int key_num, mxArray *val); </pre></div> <p>A difference between the oct-file interface to structures and the mex-file version is that the functions to operate on structures in mex-files directly include an <code>index</code> over the elements of the arrays of elements per <code>field</code>; Whereas, the oct-file structure includes a Cell Array per field of the structure. </p> <p>An example that demonstrates the use of structures in a mex-file can be found in the file <samp>mystruct.c</samp> shown below. </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="verbatim">#include "mex.h" void mexFunction (int nlhs, mxArray *plhs[], int nrhs, const mxArray *prhs[]) { int i; mwIndex j; mxArray *v; const char *keys[] = { "this", "that" }; if (nrhs != 1 || ! mxIsStruct (prhs[0])) mexErrMsgTxt ("ARG1 must be a struct"); for (i = 0; i < mxGetNumberOfFields (prhs[0]); i++) for (j = 0; j < mxGetNumberOfElements (prhs[0]); j++) { mexPrintf ("field %s(%d) = ", mxGetFieldNameByNumber (prhs[0], i), j); v = mxGetFieldByNumber (prhs[0], j, i); mexCallMATLAB (0, NULL, 1, &v, "disp"); } v = mxCreateStructMatrix (2, 2, 2, keys); mxSetFieldByNumber (v, 0, 0, mxCreateString ("this1")); mxSetFieldByNumber (v, 0, 1, mxCreateString ("that1")); mxSetFieldByNumber (v, 1, 0, mxCreateString ("this2")); mxSetFieldByNumber (v, 1, 1, mxCreateString ("that2")); mxSetFieldByNumber (v, 2, 0, mxCreateString ("this3")); mxSetFieldByNumber (v, 2, 1, mxCreateString ("that3")); mxSetFieldByNumber (v, 3, 0, mxCreateString ("this4")); mxSetFieldByNumber (v, 3, 1, mxCreateString ("that4")); if (nlhs) plhs[0] = v; } </pre></div> <p>An example of the behavior of this function within Octave is then </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">a(1).f1 = "f11"; a(1).f2 = "f12"; a(2).f1 = "f21"; a(2).f2 = "f22"; b = mystruct (a); ⇒ field f1(0) = f11 field f1(1) = f21 field f2(0) = f12 field f2(1) = f22 b ⇒ 2x2 struct array containing the fields: this that b(3) ⇒ scalar structure containing the fields: this = this3 that = that3 </pre></div> <hr> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Sparse-Matrices-with-Mex_002dFiles.html#Sparse-Matrices-with-Mex_002dFiles" accesskey="n" rel="next">Sparse Matrices with Mex-Files</a>, Previous: <a href="Cell-Arrays-with-Mex_002dFiles.html#Cell-Arrays-with-Mex_002dFiles" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Cell Arrays with Mex-Files</a>, Up: <a href="Mex_002dFiles.html#Mex_002dFiles" accesskey="u" rel="up">Mex-Files</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> </body> </html>