Additional Features

This brief guide has not touched upon many interesting MATLAB features. MATLAB provides many additional functions that you can explore in the MATLAB manuals or using MATLAB's help facilities. For example, you may want to learn more about the following commands and features:

diary

A command to make a diary of a portion of your MATLAB session.

debug

MATLAB has a debugger!

eval,feval

Functions to evaluate strings as MATLAB commands.

disp,fprintf,sprintf,format

Commands for displaying data.

tic,toc

Commands controlling a stopwatch timer.

cputime

A command returning the CPU time used by the current MATLAB session.

pi,eps,realmin,realmax,inf,nan

Various builtin constants.