How to implement the arguments validation in a function correctly?
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Ana Gabriela Guedes
on 15 Oct 2022
Answered: Vinayak Choyyan
on 18 Oct 2022
Hello!!
I am writing a code for neural networks where the user can choose if he wants to use a filter, how many layers, the activation functions to use, etc. I wanted to set an argument validation so the only options the user can choose are already defined. I tried to write it this way but I always get an error. Any sugestion on how to fix it? Thank you!
The error i get is the following:
>> Error using cell/ismember
Input A of class double and input B of class cell must be cell arrays of character vectors, unless one is a character vector.
Error in mustBeMember (line 14)
if ~all(ismember(A, B), 'all')
Error in main (line 12)
nLayers (2,:) double {mustBeMember(nLayers,{1,2})}
>>
function main(filter,nLayers,activFunction1,activFunction2,softmax,testOrTrain)
arguments
filter (1,:) string {mustBeMember(filter,{'no','AM','BP'})}
nLayers (2,:) double {mustBeMember(nLayers,{1,2})}
activFunction1 (3,:) string {mustBeMember(activFunction1,{'-','hardlim','purelin','logsig'})}
activFunction2 (4,:) string {mustBeMember(activFunction2,{'hardlim','purelin','logsig'})}
softmax (5,:) string {mustBeMember(softmax,{1,2})}
testOrTrain (6,:) string {mustBeMember(testOrTrain,{'train','test'})}
end
... % function itself
end
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Vinayak Choyyan
on 18 Oct 2022
Hi,
As per my understanding, you are trying to use Function Argument Validation and you are getting the error you are mentioned above.
Please try the following code snippet:
function main(filter,nLayers,activFunction1,activFunction2,softmax,testOrTrain)
arguments
filter (1,:) string {mustBeMember(filter,{'no','AM','BP'})}
nLayers (2,:) double {mustBeMember(nLayers,[1,2])} %change here
activFunction1 (3,:) string {mustBeMember(activFunction1,{'-','hardlim','purelin','logsig'})}
activFunction2 (4,:) string {mustBeMember(activFunction2,{'hardlim','purelin','logsig'})}
softmax (5,:) double {mustBeMember(softmax,[1,2])} %change here
testOrTrain (6,:) string {mustBeMember(testOrTrain,{'train','test'})}
end
... % function itself
end
You were using {1,2} which creates a cell array. I believe you intended to use [1,2] which creates and array. I also changed the data type from string to double for softmax. You can read more about Function Argument Validation
and check out some examples of using mustBeMember
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