matlab

A Rust CLI tool intending to incrementally clone functionality of matlab.

Documentation

Types

• Number: ASCII numbers (eg 1, 1.0, .0)
• Matrix: Denoted with [] with values separated with commas (,) or spaces ( ) and rows separated by semicolons (;) (eg [ 1, 2, 3 ; 4, 5, 6 ])
• Variable: Must be consecutive alphabetic ASCII characters.

Operations

• Addition (+)

>> 1 + 1
2
>> 1 + [ 1 2 3 ]
[
  2, 3, 4
]
>> [ 1 2 3 ] + 1
[
  2, 3, 4
]
>> [ 1 2 3 ] +  [ 1 1 1 ]
[
  2 3 4
]

• Subtraction (-)

>> 2 - 1
1
>> [ 3 2 1 ] - 1
[
  2, 1, 0
]

• Multiplication (*)

>> 2 * 3
6
2 * [ 1 2 3 ]
[
  2, 4, 6
]
>> [ 1 2 3 ] * 2
[
  2, 4, 6
]
>> [ 1 2 ; 3 4 ; 5 6 ] * [ 6 5 4 ; 3 2 1 ]
[
  12 9 6
  30 23 16
  48 37 26
]

• Division (/)

>> 6 / 2
3
>> [ 2 4 6 ] / 2
[
 1 2 3
]

• Equality (==)

>> 2 == 1
0
>> 2 == 2
1

• Inequality (!=)

>> 2 != 1
1
>> 2 != 2
0

• Less than (<)

>> 2 < 1
0
>> 2 < 2
0
>> 2 < 3
1

• Less than or equal to (<=)

>> 2 <= 1
0
>> 2 <= 2
1
>> 2 <= 3
1

• Greater than (>)

>> 2 > 1
1
>> 2 > 2
0 
>> 2 > 3
0

• Greater than or equal to (>=)

>> 2 >= 1
1
>> 2 >= 2
1 
>> 2 >= 3
0

• Assign (=)

>> A = 1
1
>> A
A = 1
>> A = [ 1 2 3 ; 4 5 6 ]
[
  1 2 3
  4 5 6
]
>> A
A = [
  1 2 3
  4 5 6
]