view scripts/miscellaneous/mustBeMember.m @ 28199:7ac8b3188b27

maint: merge stable to default.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:03:51 -0400
parents a9a8699a3749
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {} {} mustBeMember (@var{x}, @var{valid})
##
## Requires that input @var{x} is a member of a set of given valid values.
##
## Raises an error if any element of the input @var{x} is not a member
## of @var{valid}, as determined by @code{ismember (@var{x})}.
##
## Note that char inputs may behave weirdly, because of the interaction
## between chars and cellstrings when calling ismember() on them.  But it
## will probably "do what you mean" if you just use it naturally.
##
## @end deftypefn

function mustBeMember (x, valid)
  tf = ismember (x, valid);
  if ! all (tf)
    label = inputname (1);
    if isempty (label)
      label = "input";
    endif
    n_bad = numel (find (! tf));
    # TODO: Fancy inclusion of bad & valid values in the error message.
    # Probably use mat2str() in a try/catch for that.
    error ( ...
      "%s must be one of the specified valid values; got %d elements that weren't", ...
      label, n_bad);
  endif
endfunction

%!test
%! mustBeMember (42, 38:50)
%! mustBeMember ('foo', {'foo', 'bar', 'baz'})
%! mustBeMember (38:42, 37:43)
%! mustBeMember ({'foo','bar'}, {'foo', 'bar', 'baz'})

%!error mustBeMember ()
%!error mustBeMember (42)
%!error mustBeMember (42, 1:5)
%!error mustBeMember ('nope', {'foo', 'bar', 'baz'})