traverse a structure in matlab

To traverse a structure in MATLAB, you can use recursion and indexing to access nested fields. Here's an example function that prints out all the fields of a given structure:

main.m
function traverseStruct(s)
% Recursively print out all fields of a structure
    fields = fieldnames(s);
    for i = 1:length(fields)
        field = fields{i};
        value = s.(field);
        if isstruct(value)
            % If the value is a structure, recursively traverse it
            fprintf('%s:\n', field);
            traverseStruct(value);
        else
            % Otherwise, just print the field and its value
            fprintf('%s: %s\n', field, mat2str(value));
        end
    end
end
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You can call this function with a structure as the argument to print out all its fields. For example:

main.m
s = struct('a', 1, 'b', struct('c', 2, 'd', struct('e', 3)));
traverseStruct(s);
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This would output:

main.m
a: 1
b:
c: 2
d:
e: 3
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