Engine (C)

Type for MATLAB engine

Description

A handle to a MATLAB^® engine object.

Engine is a C language opaque type.

You can call MATLAB as a computational engine by writing C programs that use the MATLAB engine library. Engine is the link between your program and the separate MATLAB engine process.

The header file containing this type is:

#include "engine.h"

Examples

To open an example, type:

edit([fullfile(matlabroot,"extern","examples","engmat","filename")]);

where filename is:

• engdemo.c shows how to call the MATLAB engine functions from a C program.

• engwindemo.c show how to call the MATLAB engine functions from a C program for Windows^® systems.

• fengdemo.F shows how to call the MATLAB engine functions from a Fortran program.