MATLAB Function Reference

disp - Display text or array

Syntax

disp(X)

Description

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

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

Note that disp does not display empty arrays.

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

You also can use the disp command to display a hyperlink in the Command Window. Include the full hypertext string on a single line as input to disp:

disp('<a href = "http://www.mathworks.com">The MathWorks Web Site</a>')

which generates this hyperlink in the Command Window:

The MathWorks Web Site

Click the link to display The MathWorks home page in a MATLAB^® Web browser.

See Also

format, int2str, matlabcolon, num2str, rats, sprintf

dir (ftp)

disp (memmapfile)