11.1) Flow Control

Flow control means specifying pathways through a program so that modules can be repeated or skipped. It is a very powerful and useful feature of many high-level programming languages.
Matlab provides several constructs which enable the programmer to specify alternative actions depending on the outcome of a logical test, or to repeat statements within loops.

• if...elseif...else..end
• switch...case...otherwise
• for...end
• while...end
• try...catch

In the following examples, you will notice that text indentation is used to improve readability.