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Specifying Property Names
By convention, the first letter of each word that makes up a property name is capitalized. While this makes property names easier to read, MATLAB does not check for uppercase letters. In addition, you need use only enough letters to identify the property name uniquely, so you can abbreviate most property names. For example, you can set theSampleRate property for the device object AI any of these ways.
set(AI, 'SampleRate', 8000) set(AI, 'samplerate', 8000) set(AI, 'sampler', 8000)In M-files, however, using the full property name can prevent problems with future releases of the Data Acquisition Toolbox if a shortened name is no longer unique because of the addition of new properties.