Calling a mat file from batch file and getting "Error: This statement is incomplete." . Matlab is opening but its throwing an error due to an IF condition in batch file.

Here is the batch file code from where i am calling the mat file,

IF %DO_FILECOPY%==1 (
   @echo Calling matlab
   @%MATLAB_PATH% -noFigureWindows -nodesktop -nosplash -softwareopengl -wait -sd "%PLOT_SCRIPT_PATH%" -r FileCopy('"%FILE_PATH%"','"%DESTINATION%"');
)

The FileCopy file takes these FILE_PATH and DESTINATION strings as arguments. I have set DO_FILECOPY to 1.

function FileCopy(varargin)
if nargin > 0  
    searchPath = varargin{1};
    destination = varargin{2};
end
searchPattern = '.mat$';
bRecursiveSearch = 1;
.
.
.

End of code.

Error is as follows

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

The parsing of DOS commands is pretty complicated. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4094699/how-does-the-windows-command-interpreter-cmd-exe-parse-scripts

I am not at all sure as I have very little experience with DOS shell, but I suspect that you might be running into this clause of phase 2:

If the parenthesis counter is 0 and the parser is looking for a command, then ) functions similar to a REM statement as long as it is immediately followed by a token delimiter, special character, newline, or end-of-file

The ( would not have incremented the parenthesis count because it was not looking for a command token at that point; I hypothesize that at the point of the ) that it was looking for a command. I might be misreading the intention of the description.

Anyhow, if my suspicions are correct, then you should replace the ) with ^)

[santosh galagali]

Hi Walter, yes it did work. Replacing ) with ^) in the batch file call worked well. Thanks