Print yourself a progress bar in the command line. Includes a spinner! (Only limitation is your loop cannot print anything.)
Buffers itself to print every .1 second at max; so you don't have to worry about your screen refreshing too often. All the runtime options are configurable if you take a look at the code.
By default; does a 50 length progress bar that looks like this;
` [.......... ]-( 10%)`
Use like the following;
`for i = 1:N; progressbar(i, N); loopFunctionHere(some_vars); end`
Cite As
Batuhan Baserdem (2026). progressbar (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/76343-progressbar), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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