Matlab: Terminate Execution by emulating CTRL+C

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This is a really usful trick for GUI development in Matlab. Although Matlab has some advanced methods such as Future object to run the process in background. But a simple method to mimic what the user does by pressing CTRL+C would be nice to have!

Matlab: convert time duration to string

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Matlab has its own tic/toc function to measure the running time a peice of code, which is very convenient and widely used by developers. The duration() function along with hours(), minutes(), and seconds() is another way of creating time durations explicitly. All of these duration types need to be converted to string format for displaying purpose. How can/should we convert them properly?

Find All Opened Matlab Figures

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Sometimes, Matlab is really good at plotting data for analysis or image processing. The simple figure() function can be used to create a new figure to plot on. Otherwise, it will plot directly on the last existing (or the current figure, which can be accessed via gcf function) figure. Moreover, the existing plotted data would be overwritten if you forgot to turn 'hold on' to preserve the current plots. So it's very common to always call figure() to get a new convas before plotting. However, this leads to another problem that you may get massive number of figures opened after a while using Matlab. I call it as Figure Explosion. To get rid of all open figures, one can simply type 'close all'. However, what if there are some figures you'd like to keep but you just cannot find them manually. How can we close some figures selectively based on there properties, e.g. names maybe? Here it is!

Generalised Conversion from Any Data Type to String in Matlab

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For logging and debugging purpose in Matlab, some parameter values need to be written either to the command window or an external file. To display in the command window, we have two options - disp() and fprintf(). The disp() is very convenient and works with all data types. However, we must stick to fprintf() if more flexible formats are required, such as %f, %g, %s, %d, etc. But it means treating different data types differently. 

Is there a simple and generalised way of doing this? Or is Matlab clever enough to convert any data type to a proper string format for displaying? The answer is YES!

Get DateTime as a Formatted String in Matlab

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A very common task would be obtain the current timestamp while writing code in any programming languages, especially for logging and debugging purpose. Almost all the languages provide support for retrieving the current date and time using either built-in or 3rd party libs. 

Matlab has some built-in formats already. All we need to do is to pass the proper format number to its 'datestr()' function. To obtain the current time and date, 'now' can be passed to the 'datestr()' function as the first parameter. The 2nd parameter is for specifying the format. Someone may write code like "datestr(now, 'yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS')" to get a timestamp such as 2022-11-10 00:00:42. However, apart from explicitely writing out the format string, Matlab also supports specifying the format using a single number - "datestr(now, 31)" will give you the same result. How about other formats?

Python Tip: Get Filename, Extension, Parent Folder, File Existence, and More

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From time to time, a very common task might be to get the file name, extension, parent folder, or checking the exitance of a file or file list. In Python, this can be done by the in-built os.path library. Here is how!