What is the cause of undefined variable or function error.

Hello and a good day. I just wanna ask a question about 'undefined variable or function' error.

i got an error saying

"Undefined variable or function Target might refer to the function target."

I'm just curious. What is the main cause of this type of error ?

Because, previously my function worked just fine and i haven't change a thing and suddenly this error popped up. Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

[Matt Fig]

MATLAB is case sensitive. Target, target, tarGet, TarGet are all different things. If your function is named target, don't call it as Target.

clear all
Tar = 6;
TAR = 7;
tar = 8;
whos

[tarmizi adam]

Thanks Matt, yes i realize that MATLAB is case sensitive. But i dont think i've overlooked that. Because my function worked great before and i haven't changed anything since. too bad my code is to long and has many function calls, quite reluctant to post it here. Any other suggestions ?

[Walter Roberson]

which -all Target

See if it is on your path.

Try executing

rehash

[tarmizi adam]

which -all Target

returns "C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2009a\toolbox\eml\eml\@eml\target.m % eml method" in the command window.

'target.m' is not my function tough. the 'Target' that im using is from

fid = fopen('C:\Users\tarmizi\Documents\MATLAB\Feature Extraction   MSc\Target_Test.txt','r');
  Target = fscanf(fid,'%d');

is this the cause of the confusion ? how do i fix this ? do i have to change the 'Target' to another variable name..

[tarmizi adam]

i've changed the 'Target' to 'fileOpen' as below:

fid = fopen('C:\Users\tarmizi\Documents\MATLAB\Feature Extraction   MSc\Target_Test.txt','r');
  fileOpen = fscanf(fid,'%d');

now MATLAB produces the error:

Undefined function or variable "fileOpen".

the previous problem seems to show that MATLAB was confused between 'Target' and the target.m function. But now MATLAB says that "fileOpen" is undefined.

all the functions are placed in the same folder, so i don't think its a path problem.

[Walter Roberson]

Ah, okay then what it is telling you is that at the point where fileOpen is being used (not the point it is being initialized), fileOpen does not exist. We would need to see the code between the two points to explain what is going on.

[tarmizi adam]

The following is the code..

function TestNN(test_Feat,netName,net, TEST,featName)

test_Feat = test_Feat;

%=======Test the trained network with Testing features=====
Yt=sim(net,TEST);
%=========================================================

if length(test_Feat.testFeat.TEST)== 416
    fid = fopen('C:\Users\tarmizi\Documents\MATLAB\Feature Extraction MSc\Target_Test.txt','r');
    fileOpen = fscanf(fid,'%d');

elseif strcmp(test_Feat.Name,'TEST_F8.mat')==1

      fid = fopen('C:\Users\tarmizi\Documents\MATLAB\Feature Extraction MSc\PatternF8.txt','r');
      fileOpen = fscanf(fid,'%d');

end

disp('SAVE RESULT TO .txt FILE')

Answer = zeros(length(Yt));
 L = length(Yt);  %number of test pattern
 ans = 1;

    for m = 1:L
        max = 0.0; %0.0
       for n = 1:26   
           if (Yt(n,m)>= max)
             max = Yt(n,m);
             ans = n;
             Answer(m) = ans;
           end 
      end

    end  

T = Answer;
  match = 0;
for i = 1:numel(fileOpen) % change this value if length of Yt changes

          if (T(i) == fileOpen(i))
              match = match+1;
          end 

end

    RR = (match / L)*100; 

fid = fopen('C:\Users\tarmizi\Desktop\tryJa\result.txt','a');

fprintf(fid,'%s:',featName);
fprintf(fid,'{%s}->',netName);
fprintf(fid,'recognition: %.2f  \t',RR);
fprintf(fid,'Match: %.2f  \t',match);
fprintf(fid,'Total pattern: %.2f \n',L);
%}

   disp('END OF EVALUATION, CHECK THE ".txt" FILE GENERATED FOR RESULTS')
   fclose('all');

Sorry for the messy code. But that's it. The thing that borders me is that, before this, i had no problem in using it. This is quite odd...

[Walter Roberson]

You have if, elseif, but if neither condition is true then fileOpen is left undefined.

[tarmizi adam]

yep, let me try to check on that. i'll try some adjustments to that part...

[tarmizi adam]

thanks Walter. i've change some of my if else statement. It works !