Close all figures in MATLAB, except specific ones.

Question

I am trying to determine if there is a nice way, to close all figures in MATLAB, except for one(s) that I determine before hand, are not to be closed. Is there such a way to do this?

I am finding that I am wasting a lot of time chasing down specific stuff to close, every time my MATLAB script runs. Thank you.

Answer 1

You can try this

%figures to keep
figs2keep = [4, 7];

% Uncomment the following to 
% include ALL windows, including those with hidden handles (e.g. GUIs)
% all_figs = findall(0, 'type', 'figure');

all_figs = findobj(0, 'type', 'figure');
delete(setdiff(all_figs, figs2keep));

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