MATLAB: How to add a new field in astruct

struct

test=struct('generated_power',genPwr,'Platform_motions',PlatMotions)

How can I add a new field to my "test"-struct between runs?

Best Answer

setfield(test,'NewField',1)

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MATLAB: Add a new field to structure

 teststruct = struct('names',{'bob','dave','sara'});
 % now add field called data
 [teststruct(:).data] = deal(randn(3,1));
 fieldnames(teststruct)

MATLAB: How to make a structure to be input of a function and then its updated version to be output of the function

function new_struct = update_struct(old_struct,add_field, add_val)
    new_struct = old_struct;
    new_struct.(add_field) = add_val;
end

Notes:

"function" comes before output
don't use struct as a variable name

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