Problem:
A student sent me an email – ” I can’t figure out how to continue my text on another line in the editor while using the fprintf command in MATLAB. It seems like this should be something simple, but I can’t figure it out. The closest thing I have tried is:
fprintf(‘filler filler filler’, …
‘filler filler’)
When I run this script, this only displays the content within the first set of quotes though.
Solution:
Assign the long strings to variables, and then use the fprintf statements
abc=’My name is’
def=’ Slim Shady, also known as Marshall Mathers’
fprintf([abc def])
or you could do the following, especially if you have other non-string variables to print
abc=’My name is’
def=’ Slim Shady, also known as Marshall Mathers’
fprintf(‘%s %s’,abc,def)
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