MATLAB: Indent multiple matlab codes

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i want to indent multiple codes. is there a matlab function that open, indent, save and close a file (given its directory) ? do you have other suggestions for my problems ? thanks

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See http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/11457#answer_15635:

folder   = cd;
fileList = dir(fullfile(folder, '*.m'));
for iFile = 1:length(fileList)
  aFile = fullfile(folder, fileList(iFile).name);
  h = matlab.desktop.editor.openDocument(aFile);
  h.smartIndentContents
  h.save
  h.close
end

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EDIT Dec 2015: use http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/50554-okomarov-tidycode

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function l = foo()
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l
for l
l = 1:10
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I found a way. It's not pretty, but in case someone else might find this useful...

In my user folder (on OSX) there is .matlab/R2009a/MATLABDesktop.xml

There is a LOT of stuff in this file, but I found many entries of the form:

 <ClientData EditorFileName="FULL PATH TO ONE OF MY OPEN M-FILES"/>

All my m-files are at /Volumes/data/adam/...

The following grep commands find the desired lines in the xml file and extract JUST the m-file paths:

 grep 'EditorFileName' MATLABDesktop.xml | grep -o '\"/Volumes/.*\.m\"'

Copy/paste the list into a cell array and

 edit(X{:})

The API referenced by Sean de seems like a much nicer option for those using newer releases.

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