Is there a Matlab conditional IF operator that can be placed INLINE like VBA's IIF

Question

In VBA I can do the following:

A = B + IIF(C>0, C, 0)

so that if C>0 I get A=B+C and C<=0 I get A=B

Answer 1

Others have said already that there is no ternary ?: operator in Matlab. As a solution I suggest this function, which takes three functions instead of values. Therefore the amount of unnecessary calculations is minimized and you can check conditions before starting calculations, e.g. if a value is really numeric, or finite, or nonzero:

function [ out ] = iif( condition, thenF, elseF, in, out)
%iif Implements the ternary ?: operator
%   out = iif (@condition, @thenF, @elseF, in[, out])
%
%   The result is equivalent to:
%   condition(x) ? thenF(x) : elseF(x)
%
%   The optional argument out serves as a template, if the output type is
%   different from the input type, e.g. for mapping arrays to cells and
%   vice versa.
%
% This code is in the public domain.

mask = condition(in);
if nargin <= 4
  out = in;
end

if sum(mask)
  out(mask)  = thenF(in(mask));
end
if sum(~mask)
  out(~mask) = elseF(in(~mask));
end

end

Use it like this:

f = @(y)(iif(@(x)(x > 3), @(x)(x.^2), @(x)(x/2), y))
f(linspace(0,6,10))