How do you handle resources in MATLAB in an exception safe manner? (like “try … finally”)

Question

Since there is no finally clause to the try-catch block in MATLAB, I find myself writing lots of code like the following:

fid = fopen(filename);
if fid==-1
          


        

Answer 1

My preference is to create a FileHandle class with a delete method that closes the file when the object goes out of scope. Also gives you the opportunity to do other more natural file handle-y things.