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How to find package functions that are shadowed?
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I'm missing something.
It is possible to have several package functions with identical fully qualified names, e.g. p1.test, on the search path. The statement
which( 'p1.test', '-all' )
should be the way to discover shadowed package functions. However, I fail to make that work. This script below illustrates my problem. which() finds only one of the two p1.test
%%
addpath( cd )
mkdir( cd, '+p1' );
mkdir( fullfile(cd,'f1'), '+p1' );
addpath(fullfile('.','f1'));
str2txt( fullfile(cd,'+p1','test.m'), '% test' );
str2txt( fullfile(cd,'f1','+p1','test.m'), '% test' );
%%
cd ..
which( 'p1.test', '-all' )
%%
function str2txt( ffs, str )
fid = fopen( ffs, 'wt' );
fprintf( fid, '%s', str );
fclose( fid );
end
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Pramil
on 21 May 2024
Edited: Pramil
on 22 May 2024
Hi per,
This is one of the limitations of the “which” function and as of MATLAB R2024a, using the syntax:
which(‘some.package.fcnName’, -all)
This would only give the first path for the package function “fcnName” it finds.
There is a workaround though that you can use instead; which works in both MATLAB R2024a and R2018b:
which -all +some/+package/fcnName
The above will get you all the path of “some.package.fcnName” present on MATLAB’s path.
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Hope it helps.
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