Chapter 8:

MuPAD Programming IConditional Control and Loops

MATLAB for Scientist and Engineers

Using Symbolic Toolbox

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You are going to See that MuPAD provides flow control mech-

anism, such as if and loops Get to know how to use if and case state-

ments Use for, while, repeat statements to iterate

various loops

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type and testtype

Useful for checking some conditions

Cf. domtype()

For all available Types

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IF statement

if condition if condition – else

x<0

S1

x<0

S1

T

F

S2

T

F

S1 S1

S2

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Multiple Conditions

Logical Operations

and or not xor

==> <=>

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F F

if – elif – else – end_if

F

Nested IF

if

S1 S2

T

elif elif

S3 S4

T T

S1

S2

S3

S4

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Case StatementDefine a new procedure.

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Return Value

Result of the last executed command

Abs is a function.One of them becomes the return value.

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Displaying Intermediate Results

No automatic display inside conditional statements.

Use print to display something.

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Exercise In if statements the system evaluates composite condi-

tions with Boolean operators one after the other. The evaluation routine stops prematurely if it can decide whether the final result is TRUE or FALSE (“lazy evalua-tion”). Are there problems with the following statements? What happens when the conditions are evaluated?

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For Loops : Fixed No. of Iterations

for loop

with step

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For Loops

Down to

Lists, Matrices

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While and Repeat

while

Repeat

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Nested Loops

Loop in a Loop

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Exiting a Loop

break – exit from the nearest loop

Empty List

List Concatenation

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Exercise

Write the expected output from the previous commands without using MuPAD.

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Skipping Part of Iteration

next

Skip this. Go to the end of the loop.

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Return Value of a Loop

The result of the last executed statement

Use a colon to suppress displaying the return value.

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Key Takeaways

Now, you are able to control a conditional execution of a set of state-

ments using if and case, use for loop to repeat some actions for a fixed

number of times, check loop exit condition using while and repeat –

until statements, and to control looping actions using next and

break statements.

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Notes