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Index

• Getting Started

• User's Guide

• Functions

• Desktop Tools and Development Environment

• Data Import and Export

• Mathematics

• Data Analysis

• Programming and Data Types

• Data Types

• Data Type Conversion

• Operators and Special Characters

• Strings

• Description of Strings in MATLAB

• String Creation

• String Identification

• String Manipulation

• String Parsing

• String Evaluation

• String Comparison

• Bit-Wise Operations

• Logical Operations

• Relational Operations

• Set Operations

• Date and Time Operations

• Programming in MATLAB

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Graphics

• 3-D Visualization

• GUI Development

• External Interfaces

• Examples

• Release Notes

blanks - Create string of blank characters

Syntax

blanks(n)

Description

blanks(n) is a string of n blanks.

Examples

blanks is useful with the display function. For example,

disp(['xxx' blanks(20) 'yyy'])

displays twenty blanks between the strings 'xxx' and 'yyy'.

disp(blanks(n)') moves the cursor down n lines.

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