getaddress

function varargout = getaddress
% GETADDRESS get address of machine
%   mac = getaddress returns the physical (mac) adddress of the machine.
%   [mac, ip] = getaddress returns the physical address of the machine and
%   the IP address of the machine

% Author: Ben Langhals

if ~ispc
    error('GETADDRESS is only supported on windows');
end

error(nargchk(0,0,nargin));
error(nargoutchk(1,2, nargout));

[status, result] = dos('ipconfig /all');
[start, finish] = regexp(result, '\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*');
macaddress = result(start(1):finish(1));
[start, finish] = regexp(result, '\d*\.\d*\.\d*\.\d*');
ipaddress = result(start(1):finish(1));

varargout{1} = macaddress;

if nargout == 2
    varargout{2} = ipaddress;
end