How can I implement a function that does the equivalent of Ctrl-C?
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MathWorks Support Team
on 27 Jun 2009
Commented: Walter Roberson
on 18 Dec 2018
I would like a command that does the equivalent of Ctrl-C so that I can programmatically quit out of my code. This would expecially be useful as a callback to a pushbutton.
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MathWorks Support Team
on 25 Aug 2015
There is no way to programmatically issue a Ctrl-C in MATLAB besides using the keyboard's Ctrl-C combination.
As an alternative, you can use the ERROR command to force an error that will exit the code. For example:
error('Program terminated for a specific reason')
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Adam
on 3 Aug 2016
error( ... ) should always return you to the command line unless you have a try-catch statement which handles the error, in which case it will continue.
Walter Roberson
on 18 Dec 2018
error() with an empty string is aa special case that does not trigger an error . Historically it was used internally in Mathworks code.
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