`isMATLABReleaseOlderThan`

Tests whether the running MATLAB release is older than a given release.

Category: Environment and Settings > Platform and License

Syntax

tf = isMATLABReleaseOlderThan(release)

true if the current release was published before release.

Description

The comparison is made on release dates, so it works across a and b releases of different years. It is the recommended way to guard code that depends on a function introduced in a given release, in place of parsing the text from version.

The current release is never older than itself, so asking about the same release returns false.

Input arguments

release: Release name such as 'R2024a'.

Output arguments

tf: Logical scalar.

Example

Compare with other releases

isMATLABReleaseOlderThan('R2024a')
isMATLABReleaseOlderThan('R2023b')
isMATLABReleaseOlderThan('R2020a')

Output

ans = logical
   1
ans = logical
   0
ans = logical
   0

Notes

MatLivre reports itself as MATLAB R2023b, so the first call above returns true.

isMATLABReleaseOlderThan