Matlab : Is there a way to programatically safely halt code execution (like FORTRAN's stop)?

Question

Like the title says, I want to be able to stop the code at a specific location and have it halt safely. I cannot find a command to do it like for example in FORTRAN there is the stop command.

Answer 1

The function error('error message'); will exit your program and print the error message to the console.

Answer 2

There is break to exit a loop and return to return to the invoking function or keyboard/promt.

Answer 3

Here is a function that does it (without printing any message):

function stoprun()
  ms.message='';
  ms.stack = dbstack('-completenames');
  ms.stack(1:end) = [];
  ds = dbstatus();
  stoponerror = any(strcmp('error', {ds.cond}));
  setappdata(0, 'dberrorkeep', stoponerror);
  dbclear error
  error(ms);
end

Answer 4

you can use "return" and it will "return control to the invoking function before it reaches the end of the function", which for the main program means exiting the program.