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

function argtest(varargin)

a = 1;

for ii=1:length(varargin)/2
    [~] = evalc([varargin{2*ii-1} '=''' num2str(varargin{2*ii}) '''']);
end;

disp(a);
who

This does of course not check for correct assignments, but it's simple and any useless variable will be ignored anyway. It also only works for numerics, strings and arrays, but not for matrices, cells or structures.