how to pause a function without pausing a loop in matlab

One way to pause a specific function without stopping the loop in MATLAB is to use the pause() function with a time delay parameter. For example, suppose we have a loop that is executing a specific function:

main.m
while true
    % execute some tasks here
    my_function();
    % execute other tasks here
end
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To pause my_function() for a certain amount of time (e.g. 5 seconds), we can modify the function as follows:

main.m
function my_function()
    % execute some code here
    pause(5); % pause for 5 seconds
    % execute more code here
end
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This will pause the execution of my_function() for 5 seconds without affecting the loop that is calling it.

Note that using pause() inside a loop can cause performance issues if the loop is executing many times per second. In that case, it's better to use a timer object or another mechanism for delaying execution.