Function PGACharacterMutation

Function Documentation

int PGACharacterMutation(PGAContext *ctx, int p, int pop, double mr)

Randomly mutates a character-valued gene with a specified probability.

Description

This routine is called from PGAMutate().

Note that this function is set in PGASetUp() as the mutation user function for the char datatype by default.

Example

PGAContext *ctx;
int p;
int NumMutations;

...
NumMutations = PGACharacterMutation (ctx, p, PGA_NEWPOP, 0.01);

Parameters

  • ctx – context variable

  • p – string index

  • pop – symbolic constant of the population string p is in

  • mr – probability of mutating an character-valued gene

Returns

Returns the number of mutations