Get the path to the mat file that called my function?
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I am writing a git library to do some code inspection and reporting. I intend to have it as its own package; let's call it `+git-injector`, and give it a method `report`.
I want to perform git operations on the repository that calls `git-injector.report()`. `matfilename` gives me the path to `report`, which is not helpful.
What options does matlab provide for reflection-type inspection so i can programmatically determine what the next frame up the stack from me was/ answer the question "who called me" inside of `report.m`?
What i want would probably look like this:
function status = report()
callingPath = fullfile(BLACK_VOODOO_MAGIC_REFLECTION_METHOD()); % get the path to the function that invoked me
% do some helpful stuff on that code's git information, if it exists.
status = get_repo_status(callingPath);
end
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Image Analyst
on 15 Oct 2016
You can get the call stack by calling dbstack(). Then you can find the file using dir() or which().
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