hasGroup - Determine if settings group exists - MATLAB (original) (raw)

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Determine if settings group exists

Syntax

Description

hasGroup([parentgroup](#mw%5F96edf730-a42e-4847-a2e0-79e79e7fc178),[name](#mw%5F499db798-057b-4dea-aa28-27256afa1509)) returns 1 if the settings group parentgroup contains a settings group called name. Otherwise,hasGroup returns 0.

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Examples

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Check whether a settings group exists before adding it.

Use the settings function to access the root of the settings tree and then create the settings groupmysettings.

s = settings; addGroup(s,'mysettings');

Check whether a settings group called myothersettings exists before adding it to mysettings.

if hasGroup(s.mysettings,'myothersettings') == 0 addGroup(s.mysettings,'myothersettings'); end s.mysettings

ans = SettingsGroup 'mysettings' with properties: myothersettings: [1×1 SettingsGroup]

Input Arguments

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Parent settings group, specified as a SettingsGroup object. Use the settings function to access the root settings group object and all the available settings groups.

Name of the settings group to check for, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Version History

Introduced in R2019b