MATLAB: Evalin(‘caller’,’mfilename’) does not work.

callerevalinmfilename

function out = cdc
out = evalin('caller','mfilename');
end

This fucntion returns the 'cdc', not the caller's mfilename.

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Depending on your release you can get the complete names including the path from dbstack (in v6.5 you couldn't, but already since v7.0 you can). As the doc describes:

dbstack(___, '-completenames') 
outputs the fully qualified name of each function in the stack.

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