"Publish" code with bugs

I am trying to create PDFs from the code submitted by students regardless of the codes being correct or not. Previous versions of publish would output the PDF even if there were errors. Using R2023a, I am getting an "Error in publish" error that prevents the outputting of broken code. Is there a work around?

Ex.: trial_script.m

A = [1 2; 3];

Then run publish('trial_script.m').

Answer 1

[dpb]

publish

writematrix("A = [1 2; 3];",'trial_script.m','FileType','text')
type trial_script.m

A = [1 2; 3];

publish('trial_script.m')

Error using vertcat
Dimensions of arrays being concatenated are not consistent.

Error in trial_script (line 1)
A = [1 2; 3];

ans = '/users/mss.system.ZvcubV/html/trial_script.html'

While the errors show up, publish still output the default html file; but you said it failed for a pdf so let's try that...

publish('trial_script.m','pdf')

Error using vertcat
Dimensions of arrays being concatenated are not consistent.

Error in trial_script (line 1)
A = [1 2; 3];

ans = '/users/mss.system.ZvcubV/html/trial_script.pdf'

Well, that says it created a pdf file...

d=dir(ans)

d = struct with fields:
       name: 'trial_script.pdf'
     folder: '/users/mss.system.ZvcubV/html'
       date: '14-Sep-2023 21:05:37'
      bytes: 5940
      isdir: 0
    datenum: 7.3914e+05

What result differing from the above are you getting?

type(fullfile(d.folder,d.name))

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