Re: Automatically run a script every n seconds

[Francesco Potortì]

>Is there a way to make Octave automatically run a particular script every n
>seconds, where n is user specified? The intent is to check a (financial)
>website every n seconds for a change in the data hosted on the website and
>then take some conditional action. I suppose I could write a while loop, but
>I was wondering if there is a dedicated Octave function/method for this.

The Octave interpreter is single-threaded (apart from plotting, which is
a different matter), so a loop is perfectly reasonable:

while true
  exec_your_code();
  if (terminate_condition)
    break;
  endif
  pause(n)
endwhile

Note that n can be fractional.

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