How to call a function with arguments containing "." in "run" function?

Lets say I am trying to call a function called printVersion() using run.

Here is printVersion()

function printVersion(version)

disp(version)

end

Now, if version number doesn't contain decimal, it works fine.

But, If version number has decimal, it trys to find the whole string as a script.

Thank you.

[Stephen23]

"How to call a function with arguments containing "." in "run" function?"

Don't do this: RUN is only documented for scripts, not functions. Any other undocumented behavior RUN might have is liable to change or be unpredictable. Use function handles and avoid meta-programming in code.

Answer 1

[Matlab Pro]

Hi @Mudit Garg.

You are correct: Matlab tries to look for a program with this name.

A simple solution to overcome this issue is by doing an 'eval' command ahead and sending this eval var to the function

eval('a="Version1.1";');run('printVersion(a)')

function printVersion(version)
    disp(version)
end

[Mudit Garg]

Thank you @Matlab Pro for sharing a potential workaround.