Matlab function that tells the full path of from where the function has been called

Not sure the title is very clear so I'll describe my project :

There is this class 1 in Desktop/Folder/Sub_Folder1/@class1/class1.m in which a function1 is coded.

There is this class 2 in Desktop/Folder/Sub_Folder2/@class2/class2.m in which a function 2 is coded.

When function2 is called, it calls function1 that displays a message. There will be in the future function3, 4, 5.. that will also call function1 and display a message so I want to know in the message what function triggered function1.

I tried dbstack but it doesn't give me the whole path. only 'class2.function2'

Also, for some reason I'm in matlab2014a.

Answer 1

[Torsten]

What about passing the full path where the function is located from the respective functions 2,3,4,5... to function1 ?

See

https://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/mfilename.html

together with fileparts() to extract the directory portion, and fullfile() to construct the new file name.

[Gauthier]

Yes that was my backup solution but I wanted to know if there was something less 'brute' / cleaner

[Torsten]

I think it is as clean as you can get. And why do you think it's brute ?

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Use dbstack , possibly with the -completenames option.