An interactive introduction to MATLAB

68 advanced topic: the switch statement

Listing A.2: computer_test.m - Script to test type of computer MATLAB is running

on

1 % computer_test.m

2 % Script to test type of computer MATLAB is running on

3 %

4 % Craig Warren, 08/07/2010

6 % Variable dictionary

7 % myComputer Variable to hold information about computer

9 clear all; % Clear all variables from workspace

10 clc; % Clear command window

12 myComputer = computer; % Assign result of built−in computer

13 % function to myComputer variable

14 switch myComputer

15 case 'PCWIN'

16 disp('This computer is running Microsoft Windows, 32−bit');

17 case 'PCWIN64'

18 disp('This computer is running Microsoft Windows, 64−bit');

19 case 'GLNX86'

20 disp('This computer is running Linux, 32−bit');

21 case 'GLNXA64'

22 disp('This computer is running Linux, 64−bit');

23 case 'MACI'

24 disp('This computer is running Mac OS X, Intel, 32−bit');

25 case 'MACI64'

26 disp('This computer is running Mac OS X, Intel, 64−bit');

27 case 'SOL64'

28 disp('This computer is running Sun Solaris, 64−bit');

29 end