disp

Purpose

Display text or matrix.

Synopsis

disp(X)

Description

disp(X) displays a matrix, without printing the matrix name. If X contains a text string, the string is displayed.

Another way to display a matrix on the screen is to type its name, but this prints a leading "X =," which is not always desirable.

Examples

One use of disp in an M-file is to display a matrix with column labels:

disp('      Corn      Oats      Hay')
disp(rand(5,3))
which results in

      Corn      Oats      Hay
    0.2113    0.8474    0.2749
    0.0820    0.4524    0.8807
    0.7599    0.8075    0.6538
    0.0087    0.4832    0.4899
    0.8096    0.6135    0.7741
This shows the use of disp on both data and text strings.

See Also

num2str, setstr, sprintf

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