overwritedatafield.m.svn-base

a function inside machine learning

function d = overwriteDataField(d2, d, name, exIndices, colInds)
%Copy a data field from d2 to d called name, overwriting if it exists
%Optionally specify exIndices and colInds

% Copyright (C) 2006 Charanpal Dhanjal 

% This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
% modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
% License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
% version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
% 
% This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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% Lesser General Public License for more details.
% 
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% USA

if (nargin < 3)
    fprintf('%s\n', help(sprintf('%s', mfilename)));
    error('Incorrect number of inputs - see above usage instructions.');
end

if isfield(d.exampleIndices, name)
    d = removeDataField(d, name);
end

if nargin == 3
    d = copyDataField(d2, d, name);
elseif nargin == 4
    d = copyDataField(d2, d, name, exIndices);
else
    d = copyDataField(d2, d, name, exIndices, colInds);
end