Question

I’m trying to list classes I created in some folder in my Matlab folder – using only their name (class name)

as an example, I have a class called ‘SimpleString’ – and I’m aiming to instantiate an object from that class, if all I know is that its name is ‘SimpleString’

So in realtime, I’d like to find out what classes are in a folder (done), then be able to instantiate any of those classes (my question)
Thanks

Answer 1

You can use eval to instantiate the class using just the class name.

instance = eval('SimpleString');

However, if you’re simply iterating through all the m-files in a folder containing class definitions and grabbing the file names, you’ll only be able to invoke the default constructor using this method.