Try this, where I was trying to accept a foldername, that contained images, via the command line of a compiled executable:
if isdeployed && ~isempty(varargin)
% For some reason, it won't take the command line as a single item, even if it's in double quotes.
% It splits it up and gets rid of leading and trailing spaces so that
% "D:\word1 word2\theUser\Images"
% becomes 2 cells:
% varargin{1} = "D:\word1
% varargin{2} = word2\theUser\Images"
% We need to join all these together.
numberOfCells = length(varargin);
if numberOfCells >= 1
commandLineArgument = varargin{1};
for k = 2 : numberOfCells
thisWord = varargin{k};
% fprintf(1, 'varargin{%d} = %s\n', k, thisWord);
commandLineArgument = sprintf('%s %s', commandLineArgument, thisWord);
end
% Get rid of any quotes.
commandLineArgument = strrep(commandLineArgument, '"', []);
fprintf(1, 'The argument passed in on the command line is %s\n', commandLineArgument);
% msgboxw(['The argument passed in on the command line is ', commandLineArgument]);
if exist(commandLineArgument, 'dir')
% If this folder exists, use it.
handles.imageFolder = commandLineArgument;
fprintf(1, 'Changed image folder to this: %s\n', handles.imageFolder);
else
fprintf(1, 'This folder does not exist, so we cannot change to it:\n %s\n', commandLineArgument);
end
end
fprintf(1, 'handles.imageFolder = %s\n', handles.imageFolder);
end
