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This is my first post on the group and i hope i wont be disappointed.
We have a facility in C language to accept a character without
pressing enter by using "getch".
Is there any alternative of similar sort in matlab i.e i want to
accept a character from a user but does not want the user to press
enter, even then that character will go in the designated variable.
thanks in advance

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Mehta wrote:

> This is my first post on the group and i hope i wont be disappointed.
> We have a facility in C language to accept a character without
> pressing enter by using "getch".

getch() is not part of the C standard, but is supplied by some systems.

> Is there any alternative of similar sort in matlab i.e i want to
> accept a character from a user but does not want the user to press
> enter, even then that character will go in the designated variable.

Not being standard, I don't believe that matlab would supply such.

If you can call C from matlab, write a C program to call getch()
and return the character to matlab.

-- glen

On Feb 14, 2:56 am, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Mehta wrote:
> > This is my first post on the group and i hope i wont be disappointed.
> > We have a facility in C language toaccepta character without
> > pressing enter by using "getch".
>
> getch() is not part of the C standard, but is supplied by some systems.
>
> > Is there any alternative of similar sort in matlab i.e i want to
> >accepta character from a user but does not want the user to press
> > enter, even then that character will go in the designatedvariable.
>
> Not being standard, I don't believe that matlab would supply such.
>
> If you can call C from matlab, write a C program to call getch()
> and return the character to matlab.
>
> -- glen

basically what i want is to move a robot by programming the parallel
port in matlab.so when i press "W" it should move forward without
pressing enter.similarly for other dorections i dont want to use the
return key.please provide me with the soln.
bye tc