ch = makevalidfield(ch) fixes common invalid field names for structed
arrays
ARGUMENTS
ch ... name of channel as string
RETURNS
ch ... new name of channel as string with invalid fieldnames removed
Created by JJ Loh
Updated by Phil Dixon Nov 2008
- This function now uses recursion to fix channel names with multiple
problems
Updated by Phil Dixon Nov 2011
- subcase ':' can handle invalid characters at the end of the field
updated by Phil Dixon March 2013
- added new cases
Updated by Philippe C. Dixon May 2014
- added new cases
- use of 'strrep' to clean code
Updated by Philippe C. Dixon Oct 2016
- Removed '_' as invalid field
- Added '^,=' as invalid fields
- Truncates any field that exceeds MATLAB's maximum name length
- Converts numeric channel names x to nx
Updated by Oussama Jlassi and Philippe C. Dixon Aug 2023
- Improved code execution speed
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