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CTYPENEW Create New Instance of C Structure

Section: FreeMat External Interface

# Usage

The `ctypenew` function is a convenience function for creating a FreeMat structure that corresponds to a C structure. The entire structure is initialized with zeros. This has some negative implications, because if the structure definition uses `cenums`, they may come out as `'unknown'` values if there are no enumerations corresponding to zero. The use of the function is

       a = ctypenew('typename')

which creates a single structure of C structure type `'typename'`. To create an array of structures, we can provide a second argument

       a = ctypenew('typename',count)

where `count` is the number of elements in the structure array.