How to start a third party application with Matlab?

Hi everyone,

My Matlab script generates some files, when I compile it. I need to load this files in to a another third-party application. Instead of manually doing this, I would like to automate the process with a function. Could someone please tell me, is there any way to do this?My goal is to first open the application and then load the files using File->Newproject with a Matlab command.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Sugar Daddy]

open is the command. Suppose that i want to open a word document (which is in my MATLAB path) then

open('Test document.docx')

or you can also use

! Test document.docx

[Raja Vardhan Reddy Kothakapu]

Well, I don't think it will work for applications. I tried to open an application with open() command, it didn't work. Morever the help command says open() is used to open file or variable.

[Sugar Daddy]

[Walter Roberson]

! Test document.docx

Not equivalent. That attempts to find a command or executable named Test and run it with "document.docx" as a command line option.

! "Test document.docx"

would at least get the file name correct, but it would rely upon the system knowing that the proper action for a docx is to open the file... which is probably not something it knows to do.

open() is smarter about how to open files, matching suffixes to known commands.

[Sugar Daddy]

! Test document.docx

works fine in R2020a. I ve tried it. though i agree open is smarter way

[Walter Roberson]

! Test document.docx

would certainly not work on Mac.