blanks

Purpose

String of blanks.

Synopsis

blanks(n)

Description

blanks(n) creates a string of n blanks. Use blanks to format data and labels for use with the disp command.

disp(blanks(n)') moves the cursor down n lines.

Examples

Use blanks and disp to display a matrix with column labels:

disp([blanks(5) 'Corn' blanks(6) 'Oats' blanks(6) 'Hay'])
disp(randn(5,3))
          
     Corn      Oats      Hay
    1.1650    1.6961   -1.4462
    0.6268    0.0591   -0.7012
    0.0751    1.7971    1.2460
    0.3516    0.2641   -0.6390
   -0.6965    0.8717    0.5774

See Also

clc, disp, format (compact option), home

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