Is it possible to run specific lines from a different script?

Dear everyone,

I would like to ask if it possible to code to run specific lines from a script saved in a different directory (than the one I am currently working on) in Matlab?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Hiro Yoshino]

You need to make the script as function and add the directory of the script to your path as follows:

addpath(genpath("different_directory_path"))

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Yes. You can read the script as a file, and locate the desired lines, not saving the lines you do not want. Then you can eval() the text.

The portion you extract would have to be self-contained -- e.g., if you extracted a portion that had an "if" but stopped extracting before the corresponding "end" then you would have problems with the eval()

I would suggest to you that this would seldom be a good idea.