Help text does not work for user-defined functions
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I just installed R2019b and the help function does not work. Example: I created the addme function from the Add Help for Your Program page in the documentation. Result:
>> help addme
addme is a function.
c = addme(a, b)
The help text in the file was not shown. Also:
>> help help
help not found.
help seems to work ok for built-in functions.
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Oli B
2020년 3월 20일
I have a similar problem with Matlab R2019a. I use functions that were written in previous versions of Matlab (2014 I think). I can use them, but when I try to get a function's help all it gives me is "myfunction is a function".
If I copy a function's code in a new script and save it from Matlab R2019a, it works correctly. So it is not a mistake in the function's code nor in the help's path. It looks like some kind of encoding error or incompatibilty between versions?
How can I solve this without having to resave 100+ functions?
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Mark Tiede
2020년 4월 19일
SOLVED – I had this problem as well: some (not all) user-written functions which used to show the correct documentation under r2018b would only show "<function_name> is a function" after updating to r2019b. In my case the problem (as suggested by Oli B) was Legacy Mac EOL encoding – after converting to Unix LF encoding the help for these problematic functions displayed correctly once again. Note that there are many ways to automate this conversion; see e.g. this page.
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Mark Tiede
2020년 4월 20일
Did you check file encoding? What works for me under Windows is UTF-8 (EOL either \r\n or \n).
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