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Search for keyword in all help entries
Syntax
Description
lookfor topic
searches for the string
topic
in the first comment line (the H1 line) of the help text in all M-files found on the MATLAB search path. For all files in which a match occurs, lookfor
displays the H1 line.
lookfor topic -all
searches the entire first comment block of an M-file looking for topic
.
Examples
finds at least a dozen matches, including H1 lines containing "inverse hyperbolic cosine," "two-dimensional inverse FFT," and "pseudoinverse." Contrast this with
These functions run more quickly, but probably fail to find anything because MATLAB does not have a function inverse
.
In summary, what
lists the functions in a given directory, which
finds the directory containing a given function or file, and lookfor
finds all functions in all directories that might have something to do with a given keyword.
Even more extensive than the lookfor
function is the find feature in the Current Directory browser. It looks for all occurrences of a specified word in all the M-files in the current directory. For instructions, see the topic Finding Files and Content Within Files in the MATLAB Desktop Tools and Development Environment documentation.
See Also
dir
, doc
, filebrowser
, findstr
, help
, helpdesk
, helpwin
, regexp
, what
, which
, who
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