Identifying the name of a parent function in a child function?

[David Bateman]

Thomas Treichl wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I'm currently playing with some algorithms and what I could need now that 
> would be a way to find out which, let's say, 'parent function' called my 'child 
> function'. Is there a way to do that by not passing an ID-variable from the 
> parent to the child (eg. like dbstack works in Matlab) and by not setting a 
> global or persistent variable before?
>
> What I mean by example
>
>    function [] = funA ()
>      funC;
>    endfunction
>
>    function [] = funB ()
>      funC;
>    endfunction
>
>    function [] = funC ()
>      # Did funA or funB call me?
>    endfunction
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Thomas
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>   
I would have thought that something like

function y = funA (), y = funC; endfunction
function y = funB (), y = funC; endfunction
function y = funC (), y = evalin ("caller", "mfilename()"); endfunction

should have worked, but it doesn't appear to.

D.




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