MATLAB: How do you set a default reference for structure fields.

Question

Suppose I have the structure "structure1" that has 3 fields a, b, c. I pass this structure to a function to perform some operations. I would like to setup the function as follows

function out = function(structure1)
% set structure 1 as the default field reference
?command? structure1
out = a + b*c;

I am trying to avoid

out = structure1.a + structure1.b*structure.c;

or

a = structure1.a;
b = structure1.b;
c = structure1.c;
out = a+b*c;

I seem to remember there was a command that did this in release 13 but I just cannot remember the command itself.

Thanks for your help,

Eric

Answer 1

There's this one from the file exchange that does what you want:

v2struct

I think you would just do:

v2struct(structure1);

And it would pull a b and c as variables.