How can I access the saved command history in MATLAB? (2024)

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case 2 % specific history file instead -- looks in cwd at moment

%search History.xml (this conditional section inserted by dpb )

prefdir=cd; % look in current directory first

hpath = fullfile(prefdir,'History.xml');

if exist(hpath,'file')

% Read the XML file into a string to look as the older history.m (i.e. remove all XML tags)

mathist = fileread(hpath);

mathist = regexprep(mathist, '(<[^>]+>\s*)+', '$$**@@', 'lineanchors');% '$$**@@' arbitrarily chosen to mark end of each line for later parsing

% translate html entities and remove leading newline

mathist = strrep(mathist(7:end), '&gt;', '>');

mathist = strrep(mathist, '&lt;', '<');

% replace \r and \r\n with \n (safe to copy between OSes)

mathist = regexprep(mathist, '\r(\n)?', '\n');

% parse mathist into cell

mathist = strsplit(mathist, '$$**@@');

else

disp ('History.xml not found. No history in current working directory.')

disp ('Not yet generalized to open any history.xml file location.')

return

end

end