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Engine (C) - Type for a MATLAB engine

Description

A handle to a MATLAB engine object.

Engine is a C language opaque type.

You can call MATLAB software as a computational engine by writing C and Fortran programs that use the MATLAB engine library, described in Engine Library. Engine is the link between your program and the separate MATLAB engine process.

The header file containing this type is:

#include "engine.h"

Examples

See the following examples in matlabroot/extern/examples/eng_mat.

• engdemo.c shows how to call the MATLAB engine functions from a C program.

• engwindemo.c show how to call the MATLAB engine functions from a C program for Windows systems.

• fengdemo.F shows how to call the MATLAB engine functions from a Fortran program.

See Also

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