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- From: ellert@v32.uh.cwru.edu
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- Subject: Re: DISP1: disp1.m - display text and numbers
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:39:53 GMT
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- In article <GRAY.93Jan25093751@snow.scr.slb.com>, gray@snow.scr.slb.com (Douglas Gray Stephens) writes:
- >If you want more control over the format of the numbers, you should
- >use the fprintf command, e.g.
- >
- > fprintf('x measures blah blah, its value is %.4g\n',x)
- >
- >(you also have more explicit control over the line breaks).
- >
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- A word of warning on the fprintf function -- under VMS 5.5-2, matlab versions
- 3.5f and 3.5g, I have had the ever so thrilling symbolic stack dump as a
- result of placing fprintf calls inside loops. These calls have been to
- to the display, rather than to files, and have had the legal number of
- arguments.
-
- Ed
- ellert@nu1.uh.cwru.edu
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