MATLAB: Run old matlab programm about human cochlea

software review

Hello. I found an old program about the human cochlea. So I started trying to run the software on Matlab R2017a.
Unfortunately, I am not able to start the program run_me. m. I tried to start the program tw.m to. To see some traveling waves (TW). But also not possible. The code of the run_me. m program is:
%________________________________________________________________________
%
%      THE HUMAN COCHLEA IN THE LINEAR APPROXIMATION
%_________________________________________________________________________
clear all
clear functions
home
help run_me
disp( ' ');
disp('  Hit a key to continue ...');
pause
home
mfiles= ['geoplots               '
   'phyplots;              '
   'tw;                    '
         'tw(1);                 '
         'tw(1.12);              '
         'greenf((1:300)/300, 1);'
   'g0((1:300)/300, 1);    '
   'gpeaks((1:300)/300,1); '
   'tmplots;               '
        ];
helps= ['help geoplots'
  'help phyplots'
  'help tw      '
  'help tw      '
  'help tw      '
  'help greenf  '
  'help g0      '
  'help gpeaks  '
  'help tmplots '
  ];
descriptions = [
'  0) Exit                                                                              '
'  1) Geometrical parameters of the cochlear partition [GEOPLOTS.M]                     '
'  2) Physical parameters of the cochlear partition [PHYPLOTS.M]                        ' 
'  3) Travelling wave (TW) profiles in the passive cochlea [TW.M]                       '
'  4) TW profiles in the active cochlea (absolute viscosity neutralised) [TW.M]         '
'  5) TW profiles in the active cochlea (absolute viscosity overcompensated) [TW.M]     '
'  6) Green''s function profiles of hydrodynamic coupling [GREENF.M]                     '
'  7) Unshaped coarse Green''s function profiles [G0.M]                                  '
'  8) Green''s function singularity profiles [GPEAKS.M]                                  '
'  9) Tectorial membrane resonance properties [TMPLOTS.M]                               '
];
while 1,
  disp('    MENU OF DEMONSTRATIONS:');
  disp(' '); 
  disp(descriptions);  
  n = input('  Select a number: ');
  disp(' ');
  if ((n <= 0) || (n > 9)),
    break
  end
  if n ~=[],
    hlp = helps(n,:);
    mfile = mfiles(n,:);
    home
    disp('________________________________________________________________________');
    % disp('    FILE INFORMATION:');
    disp(['  COMMAND LINE CALL: ', mfile]);
    eval(hlp)
    disp('________________________________________________________________________');
    disp(' ');
    disp(['  Hit a key to run  ', upper(mfile)]);
    pause
    close
    home
    eval(mfile)
  end
  home
end
I attached the file. Not sure if it is only a question of the version. The data are from 1996. If I press a number like 3 I get no return.
Best regards Henrik

Best Answer

The first problem was that it was doing a test n~=[] . In modern MATLAB that test is never true, and ~isempty(n) needs to be used instead.
There were other minor problems with the code. I have attached repaired code.
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