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Converter Methods
A converter method is a class method that has the same name as another class, such as char
or double
. Converter methods accept an object of one class as input and return an object of another class. Converters enable you to
A converter function call is of the form
where a
is an object of a class other than classname
. In this case, MATLAB looks for a method called classname
in the class directory for object a
. If the input object is already of type classname
, then MATLAB calls the constructor, which just returns the input argument.
Examples of Converter Methods
See the following sections for examples of converter methods:
Indexing an Object with Another Object | Overloading Operators and Functions |
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