Hint: You could use tic and toc for this. Start your code with a tic statement. Then you can examine the toc result in a loop and take appropriate action (display a message, break out of the loop, etc). The toc result will be in seconds. E.g., experiment with the following code and see if you can modify it to do what you want.
time_delay = 5;
tic
while( true )
if( toc >= time_delay )
fprintf('It has been %f seconds\n',time_delay);
break;
end
end
Alternatively, you could look into using the pause() function, maybe with a for loop or something similar.
