How to get Matlab to determine if the OS is windows, or mac? So to find all serial-usb connections

Question

Description of goal:

I'm trying to get matlab to determine if the computer is running windows, or mac. My main goal for this is to write a robust script to determine what serial ports are available, and USB ports (for the same reason) to identify which is an Arduino.

Current work:

I have a script that queries the registry on Windows and successfully identifies this information. However, I'm trying to make this script robust and identify for both mac and windows.

Request: If there is a better way to do this in matlab? And how do I do it robustly, hopefully independent of OS if possible, or if not, how do I do this on a Mac! Note, (instrfindall) only identifies objects to ports, which are therefore already open. So it is sadly not a solution.

EDIT: I can determine if it's MAC or WINDOWS via ismac, and ispc calls. However, the main guts of this question still remains!

Answer 1

Even easier. MATLAB has a method to flag each OS without going to the level of CPU architecture.

if ismac
    % Code to run on Mac platform
elseif isunix
    % Code to run on Linux platform
elseif ispc
    % Code to run on Windows platform
else
    disp('Platform not supported')
end

Note: I am a MathWorks employee.