Matlab/Simulink: Determine current system level

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In Matlab/Simulink, is there a convenient way to determine the depth of the current system, i.e. the numbers of system block borders one has to cross to reach the root level from there? I suppose you can get the pathname of the current system by gcb and count the number of slashes, but that doesn't seem to be a very natural way to do it.

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You can ask for the parent in a loop, until the system doesn't have a parent,

depth = 1;
parent = get_param(system, 'Parent');

while ~isempty(parent)
  depth = depth + 1;
  parent = get_param(parent, 'Parent');
end

I didn't try this, but I think it should work.