Starting up sotware written in Basic language from MathLab

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Daiva on 21 Nov 2013

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Answered: Iain on 21 Nov 2013

I have a question, is it possible to initiate a start up of software that is written in Basic from Matlab? Does Matlab can interface to other applications via OLE automation (COM integration)?

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Iain on 21 Nov 2013

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You can use matlab to start any executable by using the system function of the "bang" "!".

 eg.: !dir
 eg.: system('C:\myexe.exe')

It can do some com communications between programs and it can use active x objects to interface with things like excel (look at xlread.m for details) and it can use DDE to exchange info too.