How to pass a matlab string as an exclamation point command

pathName = '.../foldername/subfoldername'
scriptName = 'main.py'

How do you issue a command to run some file in that folder without changing your working directory or current folder?

!python (pathName)/main.py &

This fails.

[Dominik Mattioli]

I suppose it's not the end of the world to temporarily change the working directory, but isn't there a way to accomplish this without doing that?

Answer 1

[Rik]

If you use the system function instead of the exclamation point operator you can pass a fully parsed char array.