dbstop inside an anonymous function

Is there a way to set the debugger to stop inside an anonymous function?

The following obviously won't work

dbstop in myAnonFunction

because myAnonFunction is internal to my script. I can of course accomplish what I want with

dbstop if error

and then insert an error into my anonymous function. But this is hardly good practice! There must be a better way...

Thanks, Leo

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

As you may know, in the editor, inside a script you can click on the little hyphen next to the line number, and that will set a breakpoint.

If there is an anonymous function definition on that line of the script, you will be asked if you want the breakpoint at the beginning of that line of code, or at the anonymous function (i.e. whenever that function is called from elsewhere in the code).

EDIT in response to comment:

You can do this programmatically as follows:

>> dbstop in filename at 3@

will put a breakpoint at the anonymous function on line 3 of the file filename.m.

This is described in the section on "location" in

>> doc dbstop

[per isakson]

Yes, but there doesn't seem to be possible to make that setting with code, i.e with dbstop(?)

[the cyclist]

Edited my response to explain how to do this programmatically.

[per isakson]

Thanks! Yes, it does but I missed it.

Answer 2

[Leo Simon]

Thanks, that's good to know. But I'm a dinosaur who hates GUIs so do everything from the command line. I use the -nodesktop flag and don't display the editor. Presumably there's a way to mimic that hyphen from the command line??

[the cyclist]

Leo, I edited my response to show how to do it programmatically.