name value pairs assignment help

i have to write a function having variable number of input arguments. They should come in pairs (e.g name and its value). The function should return single array and if no arguments or with odd inputs or if name is not char type, It returns an empty cell.

PS: for name value pairs here, it consists of a name(char type) and a value that can be of any data type.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

you can test nargin for being odd. You can use varargin and cellfun @ischar every second entry of varargin

[Mech Saints]

can you provide code. I tried but i dont know why the results i get are not satisfactory

[Walter Roberson]

Have you been successful in writing code to test whether a number is odd?

Have you been successful in writing a simple function that takes at least one argument?

Have you been successful in selecting every second entry in an array?

Note: varargin can only be used inside a function, not in a script.

[Mech Saints]

Got it. I wasn't checking for char