How to display command lines from a function?

Hi all,

Currently I am trying to improve my data administration. For each data file I create with my functions, I want to have a text file with all the commands that caused the creation of the data file. This way, I can always look back at a file and see which parameters and commands were used, thereby improving reproducibility and verification. Right now I use matlabs 'diary' to save all the command window output. However, the command lines of a function don't appear here. So what I am looking for is to do just that: print my function's command lines to the command window (similar to what happens if you run code with F9), so that the text is saved by 'diary'.

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Massimo Zanetti]

Use the fgets to read each line of a script and print it.

fid = fopen('matlab_file.m');

tline = fgets(fid);
while ischar(tline)
    disp(tline)
    tline = fgets(fid);
end

fclose(fid);

[Mats van Es]

Thanks a lot! Does exactly what I was looking for :)