Is there a way to have a MATLAB script run automatically as a result of some event?

I want my MATLAB script to run automatically when I import a file for it to load. Is there any way for a script to be triggered when a new file appears in the path? And if possible, how can I also get the name of the file that was just imported?

Answer 1

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi Nicholas,

the simplest I guess is to create a timer that

• looks for a new file
• starts your script, if it finds one

This way you are polling the folder. It's not really an event, but if you set the timer to 1 or 2 seconds, it's not that much difference ...

Titus

[Nicholas Sullivan]

Thanks. And how do I look for a new file?

[Sean de Wolski]

Pseudo code:

newd = dir()
compare to oldd
oldd = newd