Instantiate class from name in MATLAB

Question

I\'m trying to list classes I created in some folder in my Matlab folder - using only their name (class name)

as an example, I have a class called \'SimpleString\' -

Answer 1

You can use eval to instantiate the class using just the class name.

instance = eval('SimpleString');

However, if you're simply iterating through all the m-files in a folder containing class definitions and grabbing the file names, you'll only be able to invoke the default constructor using this method.