any function like kbhit

Hi all Is there any function like kbhit(in C) in matlab. I want to use that function inside the for loop to terminate the loop. Thanks in advance

for i=1:100000
 if kbhit == 'q'
   break;
 end
end

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/30622-non-wait-detection-of-keyboard-input--including-mex-implementation-

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8297-getkeywait

[Andrew Diamond]

kbhit oesn't seem to work in Matlab 2017b. I get this error message:

Error using set

The name 'Userdata' is not an accessible property for an instance of class

'com.mathworks.mde.cmdwin.CmdWin'.

That occurs in the init, i.e. kbhit('init') in:

set(KBHIT_h_cw, 'userdata', []);

I don't see a property method/accessor for "userdata"

Answer 2

[Bin Yang]

Replace your kbhit.m with the one attached here, it should work. The original version tried to store key event data in the 'Userdata' property of the command window object, however it is no longer viable in later Matlab versions. What I did was just to asign key event data directly to a global variable.

Answer 3

[gang gyoo jin]

Many thanks. It works.

Answer 4

[armando herculano]

for MATLAB:

while true

ch = getkey

if ch != 165 break; end

end

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for OCTAVE

while true

if kbhit(1) break; end

end

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while true

% 165 ASCII code for null

if kbhit(1) != 165 break end

end

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