mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual

Validate that value is greater than or equal to another value or issue error

Description

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mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual(value,c) issues an error if any elements in value are less than the scalar c. This function does not return a value.

mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual accepts user-defined objects if the class of the object implements these methods:

This function ignores empty values in the first input argument. Therefore, no error is thrown when the property or function argument value is empty.

Examples

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Use mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual to validate that the values in the array are greater than or equal to 3.

mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual([2,3,4],3)
Error using mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual (line 19)
Value must be greater than or equal to 3.

Restrict property values to be greater than or equal to a specified value.

This class constrains the value of Prop1 to be greater than or equal to 3.

classdef MyClass
   properties
      Prop1 {mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual(Prop1,3)}
   end
end

Create an object and assign a value to its property.

obj = MyClass;
obj.Prop1 = 2;
Error setting property 'Prop1' of class 'MyClass':
Value must be greater than or equal to 3.

When you assign a value to the property, MATLAB® calls mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual with the value being assigned to the property. mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual issues an error because the value 2 is not greater than or equal to 3.

This function restricts the input argument to be values that are greater than or equal to 5.

function r = mbGreaterThanOrEqual(x)
    arguments
        x {mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual(x,5)}
    end
    r = x - 5;
end

Calling the function with a vector that contains values that are less than 5 does not meet the requirements defined with mustBeGreaterThanOrEqual and results in an error.

x = [12.7, 45.4, 4.9, 77.1, 53.1];
r = mbGreaterThanOrEqual(x);
Error using mbGreaterThanOrEqual
Invalid input argument at position 1. Value must be greater than or equal to 5.

Input Arguments

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Value to validate, specified as a scalar or an array of one of the following:

Constant value that the value argument must be greater than or equal to, specified as a scalar of one of the following:

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation
Generate C and C++ code using MATLAB® Coder™.

Introduced in R2017a