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findCategory

Find project category of labels

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Syntax

category = findCategory(proj,categoryName)

Description

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category= findCategory(proj,categoryName)gets the category from the specified project with the specified name. You need to get a category before you can use theaddLabelorremoveLabelfunction.

Examples

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Open the Times Table App project. UsecurrentProjectto create a project object from the currently loaded project.

matlab.project.example.timesTable proj = currentProject;

UsefindCategoryto get a category of labels by name.

category = findCategory(proj,"Classification")
category = Category with properties: Name: "Classification" SingleValued: 1 DataType: "none" LabelDefinitions: [1×7 matlab.project.LabelDefinition]

Alternatively, you can get categories by index. Get the first category.

proj.Categories(1)
ans = Category with properties: Name: "Classification" SingleValued: 1 DataType: "none" LabelDefinitions: [1×7 matlab.project.LabelDefinition]

Find out what you can do with the category.

methods(category)
Methods for class matlab.project.Category: createLabel findLabel removeLabel

Input Arguments

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Project, specified as amatlab.project.Projectobject. UsecurrentProjectto create a project object from the currently loaded project.

Name of the category to get, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Output Arguments

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Category of labels, returned as aCategoryobject that you can query or modify. If the specified category is not found, the function returns an empty array.

Version History

Introduced in R2019a

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