The following functions allow you to determine the size of a variable or
expression. These functions are defined for all objects. They return
−1 when the operation doesn't make sense. For example, Octave's
data structure type doesn't have rows or columns, so the rows
and
columns
functions return −1 for structure arguments.
Returns the number of dimensions of array a. For any array, the result will always be larger than or equal to 2. Trailing singleton dimensions are not counted.
Return the number of columns of a.
See also: size, numel, rows, length, isscalar, isvector, ismatrix.
Return the number of rows of a.
See also: size, numel, columns, length, isscalar, isvector, ismatrix.
Return the `length' of the object a. For matrix objects, the length is the number of rows or columns, whichever is greater (this odd definition is used for compatibility with matlab).
Return the number rows and columns of a.
With one input argument and one output argument, the result is returned in a row vector. If there are multiple output arguments, the number of rows is assigned to the first, and the number of columns to the second, etc. For example,
size ([1, 2; 3, 4; 5, 6]) => [ 3, 2 ] [nr, nc] = size ([1, 2; 3, 4; 5, 6]) => nr = 3 => nc = 2If given a second argument,
size
will return the size of the corresponding dimension. For examplesize ([1, 2; 3, 4; 5, 6], 2) => 2returns the number of columns in the given matrix.
See also: numel.
Return 1 if a is an empty matrix (either the number of rows, or the number of columns, or both are zero). Otherwise, return 0.
Return 1 if x is a special null matrix, string or single quoted string. Indexed assignment with such a value as right-hand side should delete array elements. This function should be used when overloading indexed assignment for user-defined classes instead of
isempty
, to distinguish the cases:
A(I) = []
- This should delete elements if
I
is nonempty.X = []; A(I) = X
- This should give an error if
I
is nonempty.