Is there a way or function to hide certain lines of code in Matlab 2015a keeping the result normal?

I wanted to hide certain parts of my code. Is there any way I can do that without having an impact on the final result?

[Guillaume]

Hide from whom?

Yourself to help when reading/debugging , e.g. by hiding the content of a for loop that you don't care (you can already do that)?

A reader, because you don't want to know what's going on?

Some other unspecified reason?

[Neha Sinha]

For the reader.

[Adam]

If you mean just for the purposes of clarity and easy readability then move the code into functions. If you mean for security that you don't want a reader to be able to see the code at all then you would have to convert to P-code or put it in a dll or some other type of solution like that.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

Matlab documentation suggests two methods of protect source code: using a p-file and building a standalone executable. The first option is usually the better of the two.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/protect-your-source-code.html

A p-file obfuscates the code (it is not encrypted). Though the content of the p-file is difficult to understand, it is not completely secure.

Move the content you'd like to protect into a new m-file. Then use pcode() to convert that to a p-file.

More examples provided in the documentation here:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/pcode.html

[David Leffingwell]

See also "pcode -R2022a"