The MATLAB pause function halts a program's execution.
There are many variants of the pause function in MATLAB as listed below:
Syntax | Description |
| This function stops the program's execution awaiting the user to press any key before resuming. |
| This function stops the program's execution for a duration |
| This function enables following pause commands. |
| This function disables following pause commands. |
In Julia, the sleep(seconds) function acts like MATLAB's pause(n) function.
It blocks the execution of a program for a given number of seconds. As a minimum value, this function accepts as input 0.001 (1 millisecond).
The following example illustrates the sleep(seconds) function in Julia:
using Datesprintln("The Date/Time Before Pausing : ",now())time_elapsed = @elapsed beginsleep(1)endprintln("The Time Elapsed in seconds is equal to : ",time_elapsed)println("The Date/Time After Pausing : ",now())
Let's explain the code above.
Line 1: Load the Dates package, including the now() function.
Line 3: Display the current date and time by calling the now() function.
Lines 5–7: Calculate the time elapsed for a code block, including the sleep function. The duration of the pause is 1 second.
Line 8: Display the time elapsed in seconds.
Line 10: After this pause, display the current date and time by calling the now()function.
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