ehelp: a pedestrian extended help extractor utility

Version 1.0.0.0 (7.17 KB) by us
ehelp typically is used as a subroutine to extract extended help from its main function
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Updated 3 Feb 2006

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to provide good help is tricky: either it's too little or it clutters the command window with hundreds of lines - and thus becomes unintelligible.

Therefore, it is often desirable to give a user the option of various additional (=extended) help levels that go beyond the classical
> help myfunc

EHELP offers a solution with these simple typical steps
1) the author writes a function
2) at the end, additional help sections are embedded, each between two unique tags
3) the function body of EHELP is copy/pasted into the main function and acts as a subroutine
3) command line options are implemented for a user to look at the extended help
4) EHELP is called (typically within a switch-yard based on input options) to extract the appropriate section from its main function

EHELP can be used as a command line tool if the author provides appropriate information within the classical help section

use of low-level i/o functions guarantees a very quick extraction

see the accompanying published ML file for a simple example

Cite As

us (2026). ehelp: a pedestrian extended help extractor utility (https://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/9774-ehelp-a-pedestrian-extended-help-extractor-utility), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R14SP3
Compatible with any release
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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.0.0

added published m-file