- Do your thing
- Close Matlab
- Modify the command history file history.m (delete last line). Use prefdir() to find where it is located.
- Reopen Matlab
Clear text typed with input() from the command history
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The case scenario is very simple, I am asking for a password to be typed in the command window.
I am using
s = input('Password: ','s')
I can clear the text from the command window with something like fprintf(char(8)), but how do I clear the last typed command from the command history ?
I am aware that inputdlg() would solve the problem but I would be interested in finding some way for editing the history.
EDIT
I personally changed approach from cmd window input to GUI input and wrote a submission for the purpose: http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47210-passfield
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José-Luis
on 10 Jun 2014
Edited: José-Luis
on 10 Jun 2014
A solution that's worse than the problem:
I don't know if there's a way to force the IDE to update the command history. That way opening and closing Matlab wouldn't be necessary.
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Oleg Komarov
on 13 Jun 2014
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Rasmus
on 19 Nov 2014
I'm quite new to matlab and tires to use this code. There are one annoying side effect with the code. After the commands are executed the password will still be in the command window so i need to hit esc to not accidentally type the password again and then it is stored in the history.
How did you get around this?
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