varislock

Checks if a variable is locked.

Syntax

• state = varislock(scope, variable_name)

Input argument

• scope - a string: 'global', 'base', 'caller', 'local'.
• variable_name - a string: variable name.

Description

varislock returns true if variable_name has been declared as locked variable and false otherwise.

Example

y = 3;
varislock('local', 'y')
varlock('local', 'y')
varislock('local', 'y')
y = 4
varunlock('local', 'y')
varislock('local', 'y')
y = 4

See also

varlock, varunlock.

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Author

Allan CORNET