Exiting from a script without closing MATLAB

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While writing my MATLAB script, I've found that exiting the script is done by adding the line
exit
... which does end the script - but it also closes MATLAB completely.
How can I prematurely end a script, without closing MATLAB?
- As one possibility, is there a way to jump to / skip to / go to a line at the end of the script file?
- Are there other, better possibilities?
Here's what I have so far:
Mode = menu('Choose a Difficulty: ', 'Easy', 'Medium', 'Hard', 'Expert')
switch Mode
case (1)
...
case (2)
...
case (3)
...
case (4)
...
otherwise
button = menu('Giving up already?','Yes','No');
switch button
case 1,
display('Exiting Game');
savefile = 'GameBestTime.mat';
save(savefile,'BestTime');
exit
case 2,
quit cancel;
case 0,
quit cancel;
end
end

Accepted Answer

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 11 Apr 2014
You could throw an error, but you probably don't want to do that.
The code you show would be in a loop. Change the "exit" to "break" to cause the code to exit the loop and continue on with the next statement after the loop.
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Joe Privacy
Joe Privacy on 5 Mar 2021
This is neither an answer, or a clean approach to terminating a script without completely quiting Matlab.
zzzhhh's response below is the correct answer to the problem.

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zzzhhh
zzzhhh on 16 Apr 2018

David
David on 11 Apr 2014
For some reason, that wasn't working yesterday. But it is now, for some reason.
Alright, thanks!

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