SETIDENT

Set object identifiers

    A = SETIDENT(A,IDENT,FIELD,L)

Input
A	Dataset
IDENT	Object identifiers, size (N,K)
FIELD	Desired field, default 'IDENT'.
L	Vector of indices of objects to be updated (optional; default: all)  length(L) = N.

Output
A	Updated dataset

Description

Set or reset the subfield FIELD of the ident field of A by IDENT.  IDENT should be an array of size (N,K), with arbitrary K.

Note the ident field of datasets was originally intended for an  identification of the individual objects. Later its usage was extended  to a field for storing general information on objects. For that reason 'old'  datasets without a structure in the ident field are transformed such that  this information is stored in a subfield IDENT in the ident field. It can  be retrieved by GETIDENT(A,'IDENT').

The default FIELD is 'IDENT'. To reset the entire IDENT give  A = SETIDENT(A,IDENT,''), in which IDENT is a structure array of the  right size and including a subfield named also IDENT.

The new structure is checked or created by A = SETIDENT(A);

Note also that for reasons of backward compatibility the parameter order  of the SETIDENT command differs from similar Matlab commands like  SETFIELD: first field content, then field name.