The easiest way to create a string is, as illustrated in the introduction, to enclose a text in double-quotes or single-quotes. It is however possible to create a string without actually writing a text. The function blanks creates a string of a given length consisting only of blank characters (ASCII code 32).
Return a string of n blanks.
For example:
blanks (10);
whos ans
⇒
Attr Name Size Bytes Class
==== ==== ==== ===== =====
ans 1x10 10 char See also: repmat.
| • Concatenating Strings: |
| • Converting Numerical Data to Strings: |
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