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engOpen

Start MATLAB engine session

Fortran Syntax

Arguments

ep
   Engine pointer.

startcmd
   Character array to start MATLAB process.

Description

This routine allows you to start a MATLAB process to use MATLAB as a computational engine.

engOpen(startcmd) starts a MATLAB process using the command specified in startcmd, establishes a connection, and returns a unique engine identifier, or 0 if the open fails.

On the UNIX system, if startcmd is empty, engOpen starts MATLAB on the current host using the command matlab. If startcmd is a hostname, engOpen starts MATLAB on the designated host by embedding the specified hostname string into the larger string:

If startcmd is anything else (has white space in it, or nonalphanumeric characters), it is executed literally to start MATLAB.

engOpen performs the following steps:

  1. Creates two pipes.
  2. Forks a new process and sets up the pipes to pass stdin and stdout from the child to two file descriptors in the parent.
  3. Executes a command to run MATLAB (rsh for remote execution).

Example

See fengdemo.f in the eng_mat subdirectory of the examples directory for a sample program that illustrates how to call the MATLAB engine functions from a Fortran program.


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