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    filename: getInputFile.m
    path of file: ./repos/paramonte/src/interface/MATLAB/paramonte/interface/@ParaMonteSampler
    
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%%%%   MIT License
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%%%%   ParaMonte: plain powerful parallel Monte Carlo library.
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%%%%   Copyright (C) 2012-present, The Computational Data Science Lab
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%%%%   This file is part of the ParaMonte library.
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%%%%   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a 
%%%%   copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), 
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function namelist = getInputFile(self)

    isParaDRAM = strcmp(self.methodName,"ParaDRAM");

    if isempty(self.inputFile)

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        %%%% begin namelist generation from arguments
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        SpecBase = SpecBaseVerify(self.objectName, self.ndim);
        SpecMCMC = SpecMCMCVerify(self.objectName, self.ndim);
        SpecDRAM = SpecDRAMVerify(self.objectName, self.ndim);
        namelist = "";

        % set up outputFileName

        if isempty(self.spec.outputFileName)
            self.spec.outputFileName = fullfile( string(pwd) , self.genOutputFileName() );
        else
            if length(string(self.spec.outputFileName))==1
                if (isa(self.spec.outputFileName,"char") || isa(self.spec.outputFileName,"string")) && (end