Question

Does Matlab have a kind of with…end command? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wc500chb(v=vs.80).aspx

I have a variable in my workspace which contains a lot of nested data. Now I don’t want to have to type this all the time:

Root.ChildLevel1.A = Root.ChildLevel1.B + Root.ChildLevel1.C

But rather something like:

with Root.ChildLevel1
  A = B + C
end

is this possible?

Answer 1

I’m not aware of such functionality in Matlab.
What you can do is

cur = Root.ChildLevel1;
cur.A = cur.B + cur.C;

Edit:
According to comment by @Nick, if Root.ChildLevel1 is not subclass of handle,
then one should add the following line:

Root.ChildLevel1 = cur;

I would also recommend to

clear cur; 

at the end.