How to deal with name/value pairs of function arguments in MATLAB

Question

I have a function that takes optional arguments as name/value pairs.

function example(varargin)
% Lots of set up stuff
vargs = varargin;
nargs = length(vargs         


        

Answer 1

Read Loren's informative post on this issue. Don't forget to read the comments section... - You will see that there are quite a few different approaches to this topic. They all work, so selecting a prefered method is really a matter of personal taste and maintainability.