Check Missing Semicolons.

Use if you have a mystery variable printing to screen from one or more functions/scripts.

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I'm not the best programmer. I have a tendency to leave semicolons off when I'm debugging, so I can see what's happening in certain stages. I often then save and forget about it, and when I come back a week later, my code will print random variables to the screen which is very frustrating.

If you create a cell array with the string names of any .m files, this will then run mlint on the files you select and tell you which, if any, lines are missing semicolons.

I can't take credit for the method - one of my colleagues did something similar via the command window. I simply automated it because I'm lazy.

Enjoy!

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Harry Smith (2026). Check Missing Semicolons. (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/41873-check-missing-semicolons), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.0.0.0