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Re: any way to assign a block of text as variable?
Posted:
Oct 22, 2012 10:53 PM
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In article <k64v9s$hcb$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>,
"P" <pyjunk.nospam@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using matlab to generate code. It would be nice if I can copy and paste
> the existing header block into a matlab script, assign it to a variable, then
> have matlab write it back into the output file.
>
> ie: the header block looks like
>
> #########
> # Date ...
> # Author ...
> #
> #########
>
> The problem is I can't find a matlab type that would take this multi-line
> string as a single variable. Ideally, I want to write the entire block of
> text into a file like
>
> fprintf(fid, '%s', magical_variable);
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
You can embed eol (end-of-line) characters in the string with fprintf or
sprintf using '\n':
fprintf('line 1\nline 2\n')
Additionally, you might find my verbatim function useful:
<http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23194>
--
Doug Schwarz
dmschwarz&ieee,org
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