Thread Subject: Can we use escape in display?

I want to display a string.

using command: display('somestring\n');

and it shows on the screen that:
somestring\n

How could the newline escape '\n' be shown?

On Jul 14, 9:43 am, "Arthur Zheng" <hzhe...@gatech.edu> wrote:
> I want to display a string.
>
> using command:   display('somestring\n');
>
> and it shows on the screen that:
> somestring\n
>
> How could the newline escape '\n' be shown?

how about:
temp = sprintf('somestring\n');
display(temp);


-Nathan

Another alternative is to input the actual new line characters.

>> disp(['Hello' char(13) 'World'])
Hello
World

If you're building a string to write to file you'll have to decide whether you want to do Windows or Unix new lines.

% Windows
fid = fopen('Test.txt','w+');
S = ['Hello' char(13) char(10) 'World'];
fwrite(fid,S);
fclose(fid);

% Unix
fid = fopen('Test.txt','w+');
S = ['Hello' char(10) 'World'];
fwrite(fid,S);
fclose(fid);

On 14 Jul, 21:01, "Jeremy Smith" <smit1...@umn.NOSPAM.edu> wrote:
> Another alternative is to input the actual new line characters.
>
> >> disp(['Hello' char(13) 'World'])
>
> Hello
> World
>
> If you're building a string to write to file

... use FPRINTF.

Rune

"Jeremy Smith" <smit1729@umn.NOSPAM.edu> wrote in message <h3iklg$nnr$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Another alternative is to input the actual new line characters.
>
> >> disp(['Hello' char(13) 'World'])
> Hello
> World

Thanks!