Matlab for Beginners

tristanreid · Post by **tristanreid** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:35 pm

Cool.

To call a powershell script from Matlab:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-EV4ZDX/index.html?product=ML&solution=1-EV4ZDX

Powershell script:

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Set-TimeZone-function-b5ed93b5

-t.

tabris · Post by **tabris** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:20 am

Works great Tristan. Only problem I am having is passing variables into that function... somehow I cannot past string variables into the script.

For instance:

!powershell -inputformat none -command "& { . C:\matlab\stz.ps1; Set-Timezone 'Pacific Standard Time' }"

works perfectly but if I want 'Pacific Standard Time' to be a generated variable from matlab, I can't seem to figure out a way to do so.

tristanreid · Post by **tristanreid** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 4:10 pm

Put the whole line in a string with the time zone you want, including the bang at the beginning, and call it with eval.

-t.

tabris · Post by **tabris** » Mon Dec 17, 2012 5:19 am

argh thats right. thanks! totally forgot about eval... was trying to use system instead. good thing this thread is for beginners ha