Simple clear script

Hello all,

I feel a little silly asking this question, but I'm trying to write a little one-line function to clear out my interface to help me while I'm writing and debugging code. All the function does is run clear;clc;close; so I don't have to type that in every time.

function cc
clear;clc;close;

However, the function won't clear any variables that exist outside of the function, which makes sense, but I can't figure out how to work around this.

For example:

test = [1 4 52 45 131 5 3]; figure; cc;

This successfully clears the command window and closes the figure, but does not clear test from the workspace. Is there any way around this? I tried clear all and clear global, but obtained the same result.

Thanks,

-Sam

Answer 1

[Chirag Gupta]

don't make it a function

Just let it be a MATLAB script (Then it will run in the scope its called)

Currently, since its a function, it runs in the function scope

clear;clc;close;

save as cc.m should do the trick

[sco1]

Geesh, I figured it would be something this simple.

I remember it working when I first made it but couldn't figure out why it wasn't working any more. It never dawned on me that it was because I made it into a function.

[sco1]

Thank you!