Session 14: Data Structures [June 13, 2011, 12:43 a.m.]

Objectives

In this session you will learn the following:

User defined data structures in Scilab
Creating and using struct, cell, list, tlist and mlist

Introduction

User defined data structures offer the programmer the facility to tailor data suited to represent and program solutions to specific problems. Most data structures are an agglomeration of basic data types and previously defined user defined data types.

Scilab Data Types

Data types available in Scilab can be listed through the online help on type() and typeof(). The data types available in Scilab are:

Data Type	Object Type	Description
1	constant	real or complex constant matrix
2	polynomial	polynomial matrix
4	boolean	boolean matrix
5	sparse	sparse matrix
6	boolean sparse	sparse boolean matrix
8	int8, int16 or int32	matrix of integers stored in 1, 2 or 4 bytes
9	handle	matrix of graphic handles
10	string	matrix of character strings
11		un-compiled function (Scilab code)
13	function	compiled function (Scilab code)
14	library	function library
15	list	list
16	tlist	typed list (tlist)
17	st or mlist	structure or matrix oriented typed list (mlist)
128	pointer	pointer
129	size implicit	size implicit polynomial used for indexing
130	fptr	Scilab intrinsic (C or Fortran code)