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In article <1993Jan25.142824.5268@news.columbia.edu> mnb2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Broadie) writes:
>Thanks for the comments about disp1.m.  I realize you don't need
>an m-file for this, but it's easier.  disp1.m takes up to 10 
>arguments, with strings or numbers in any order.  fprintf and
>sprintf are limited to 3 arguments.  

ummm...no they aren't. For example:

  >>fprintf('x = %3.1f, x2 = %3.1f, x3= %7.3f\n',x1,x2,x3);
  x = 123.0, x2 = 321.0, x3=   3.000
  >>

The ?printf functions have exactly the same format, strengths, and
weaknesses as the C ?printf commands, a feature that I'm sure implies
something deep about the way Matlab implemented this!


>
>In general, I find that display information 'nicely' is not easy
>with MATLAB.  For example, does anyone have a *simple* way to
>display a small table with row and column headings.  By simple,
>I mean not having to count spaces.  For example, an m-file
>to display
>
>                 Col1 head     Col2 heading      Col3 head
>Row1 label           0.0            1.0             -3.4
>Row2 label here      0.0            1.0             -3.4
>Row3 label           0.0            1.0             -3.4
>
> 

  >>A=[0 1 -3.4;0 1 -3.4;0 1 -3.4];

  >>fprintf('\t\tCol1 head\tCol2 head\tCol3 head\n');
  >>fprintf('Row 1 label\t%6.1f\t\t%6.1f\t\t%6.1f\n',A(1,:));
  >>fprintf('Row 2 label\t%6.1f\t\t%6.1f\t\t%6.1f\n',A(2,:));
     ...

will give you the correct look. Again, it's the same as C. By judicious
use of the tab (\t) and newline (\n) in some kind of print loop you can
easily write a .m file to output matrices of arbitrary size and labelling.

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