progressbar

Progress: a progress bar for Matlab
Writes a text progress bar to the console

Syntax:

nb = progress(fraction, text)

Input:

• fraction: number between 0 and 1 (where 1 means the process has ended)
• text: label to display beside the progress bar

Output:

• out: number of bytes printed, can be used to delete the progress bar with fprintf(repmat('\b', 1, out));

Usage:

In a for loop, write progress(j/maxiter, 'text') to display a progress bar:

 >> j = 2; maxiter = 10;
 >> progress(j/maxiter);
 [====                ] 20.0%

Subsequent calls to the progress bar will delete the last out bytes, if something else has been printed to stdout this will delete that and not the progress bar. Avoid this by typing progress reset