How to add delay selectively?

Hi I'm very new to Matlab. I wanna add delay on just one if command among 3 if states. Those 3 if commands are all in while state. So when I put pause function, all while function is got delayed. Can I just delay specific if commands among them, without delaying whole while sentences? Sorry that I'm not good at English! Please help me!

[Rebecca Krosnick]

Does your code look something like this?

while condition1

    if condition2
        pause(5); % pause 5 seconds
    end

    if condition3

    end

    if condition4

    end

end

If your program is written this way, then when it reaches the "if condition2" line, if condition 2 is true, then your program will pause and wait 5 seconds until it proceeds to the next if statement ("if condition3"). Is this the behavior you would like? If not, can you give an example of the behavior you do want?