- looks for a new file
- starts your script, if it finds one
Is there a way to have a MATLAB script run automatically as a result of some event?
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Nicholas Sullivan
on 9 Jun 2015
Commented: Sean de Wolski
on 9 Jun 2015
I want my MATLAB script to run automatically when I import a file for it to load. Is there any way for a script to be triggered when a new file appears in the path? And if possible, how can I also get the name of the file that was just imported?
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Titus Edelhofer
on 9 Jun 2015
Hi Nicholas,
the simplest I guess is to create a timer that
This way you are polling the folder. It's not really an event, but if you set the timer to 1 or 2 seconds, it's not that much difference ...
Titus
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