Suppress Command Window Output using SYSTEM command

Hi, on my code i'm doing a conversation between Matlab and a software called XFOIL. First the program creates a file (.dat) with all inputs that need to apply onXFOIL, than execute it with the follow command:

system('xfoil.exe < myfile.dat');

I want to suppress command window outputs. Can anybody help me?

Thank You!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

system('xfoil.exe < myfile.dat > NUL');

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/313111/dev-null-in-windows

[Thales Follador de Oliveira]

Thank You Walter!

Answer 2

[Jan Siegmund]

The accepted answer unfortunately is OS specific. A MATLAB only solution would be:

[returncode, outputMessages] = system('xfoil.exe < myfile.dat');

or if you do not want to process the messages and need only the return code

[returncode, ~] = system('xfoil.exe < myfile.dat');