How to make Matlab case insensitive when calling mfiles

I have used Matlab for years and just updated to R2014a. I have m-file tool boxes that have been created over the years; many of the m-files have names with uppercase letters. How can I have Matlab ignor case when calling an m-file? Changing all the mfile names to lowercase will be a huge task! Changing all the mfile calls in other mfiles would be an even bigger task!

Help!

Answer 1

[Jan]

You can't.

It has been mentioned in the docs of at least R2008b, that Matlab will become case-sensitive as it was under Linux all the time.

I'm using a tool to identify all case conflicts. Unfortunately it uses many other of my other tools, such that a publication in the FEX is too time-consuming. But the strategy is easy:

• Collect the names of all M-files by stepping through all folders of the PATH
• Open each file
• Remove the comments
• Identify the symbols in each line (SYMVAR does not find "f" in the term "f(x)", so you need another tool from the file exchange instead).
• If the case does not match, display a message. I show a hyper-link, which calls opentoline to let the user open the M-file in the corresponding line directly.

Good luck!

Afterwards your code is cleaner, compatible with other Matlab versions, runs under Mac and Linux and most likely you find some bugs.