Using a List of Anonymous Functions to Implement a Set of Checks on a Data Set

(originally posted on Stuart's MATLAB Video blog)

I need to perform a number of checks on the values in a large table. Currently I implement the checks in code in a script, and it can be cumbersome if I want to enable or disable certain checks, as I need to comment out or use an if/then. Looking at my checks, they appear to all be of a similar structure: element-wise operations on the columns of the table. So I will try to implement the checks as a list of anonymous functions stored in a spreadsheet. This way I can easily enable/disable with a column value.