In Matlab, is it possible to terminate a script, but save all its internal variables to workspace?

Question

I am running a script, but it is taking much too long so I want to terminate the script. However it has calculated a lot of data which I would ideally not want to throw away

Answer 1

A colleague showed me an alternate way to incorporate this in my function, by attaching a save() command to the cancellation of a waitbar like so:

%appoint emergency file location
emergencysave = char(inputdlg({'fill in here:'}, 'windowtitle', 1, 'c:\defaultstringhere.mat'));

%or just emergencysave = 'c:\emergencysave.mat';



%create some GUI element you can cancel
times = 10;
wbinfo = struct('curlength', {0.0});
wb = waitbar(wbinfo.curlength);
wbinfo.wb = wb;



%attach save() to cancelling
anyimportantvariable = [];
for i=1:times
    anyimportantvariable = [anyimportantvariable, i^2];
    wbinfo.curlength = i/times;
    try
        waitbar(wbinfo.curlength, wb)
    catch
        save(emergencysave, 'anyimportantvariable');
        return;
end