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+3  Q: 

How to abort a running program in MATLAB?

Sometimes after calling a function (which takes some 30 odd minutes to finish), you realize that you did something wrong and want to stop the program.

How do you do that in MATLAB?

What I do is shutdown MATLAB completely and restart. I think there would be a way to abort the execution of the function instead.

Anybody know what that is?

+14  A: 

Hitting Ctrl + C usually does the trick, although sometimes it has been known to run into snags.

gnovice  2009-09-30 19:56:49
I've often found that adding a drawnow() call in a loop helps Matlab catch Ctrl+C.
mtrw  2009-09-30 20:58:23

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