How to abort a running program in MATLAB?

Question

Sometimes after calling a function (which takes some 30 odd minutes to finish), you realize that you did something wrong and want to stop the program.

How do you do that in MATLAB?

What I do is shutdown MATLAB completely and restart. I think there would be a way to abort the execution of the function instead.

Anybody know what that is?

In case you run into the situation where CTRL + C does not do the trick, this thread may be relevant: stackoverflow.com/questions/4791144/… — Dennis Jaheruddin
– Dennis Jaheruddin, Commented Jun 9, 2013 at 12:15

gnovice · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-02 04:42:47Z

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Hitting Ctrl + C usually does the trick, although sometimes it has been known to run into snags.

edited Oct 2, 2009 at 4:42

answered Sep 30, 2009 at 19:56

gnovice

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mtrw Over a year ago

I've often found that adding a drawnow() call in a loop helps Matlab catch Ctrl+C.

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