Simple clear script

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sco1
sco1 on 22 Apr 2011
Hello all,
I feel a little silly asking this question, but I'm trying to write a little one-line function to clear out my interface to help me while I'm writing and debugging code. All the function does is run clear;clc;close; so I don't have to type that in every time.
function cc
clear;clc;close;
However, the function won't clear any variables that exist outside of the function, which makes sense, but I can't figure out how to work around this.
For example:
test = [1 4 52 45 131 5 3]; figure; cc;
This successfully clears the command window and closes the figure, but does not clear test from the workspace. Is there any way around this? I tried clear all and clear global, but obtained the same result.
Thanks,
-Sam

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Chirag Gupta
Chirag Gupta on 22 Apr 2011
don't make it a function
Just let it be a MATLAB script (Then it will run in the scope its called)
Currently, since its a function, it runs in the function scope
clear;clc;close;
save as cc.m should do the trick
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sco1
sco1 on 22 Apr 2011
Geesh, I figured it would be something this simple.
I remember it working when I first made it but couldn't figure out why it wasn't working any more. It never dawned on me that it was because I made it into a function.
sco1
sco1 on 22 Apr 2011
Thank you!

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