Request user input matlab input mathworks australia. Omitting the terminating semicolon from a statement or expression displays a result. You can enter a command by typing it at the matlab prompt on the command window. Log command window text to file matlab diary mathworks. How to save the command history in a text file in matlab. It saves the resulting log to the current folder as a utf8 encoded text file named diary to see whether logging is on, type get0,diary. Then, select from one of the default layout options.
I have the same question 170 subscribe to rss feed. By default, as you type comments in the editor and live editor, the text wraps when it reaches a column width of 75. Kai arras social robotics lab start, quit, getting help to start octave type the shell command octave or whatever your os needs. Getting matlab command window history in windows by paul kiddie september 28, 2011 windows 2 comments making good use of the command window in matlab i wanted to recover this history so armed with the hard drive and not much else i went looking for where the history of the command. You can exclude statements from the command history. The following ways to print information are also available in matlab, but are frowned upon, except for rapid debugging of a program. For details, see customize figure before saving and copy figure to. Revision history december 1996 first printing for matlab 5 may 1997 second printing for matlab 5.
When you exit octave, the most recent commands you have typed, up to the number specified by the variable history. The matlab desktop was developed over many years by a number of different developers. Open command history window matlab mathworks italia. This is perfect for printing dollar amounts, where we dont care about 1 ths of a cent.
In the tutorial how to use print matlab, i will tell you about the use of this command in matlab while explaining a lot of examples and by displaying their results. Note on windows systems, when you use the p option to identify a printer to use, if you specify any driver other than dwin or dwinc, matlab writes the output to a file with an appropriate extension but does not send it to the printer. These statements include those you run using the evaluate selection item on context menus in tools such as the editor, command history window, and help browser. Now go to users folder and see that has file saved there or not. Use edit copy figure to copy the figures content to the system clipboard. Specify the orientation as either portrait, landscape, or tall. Although the developers attempted to follow platform standards for common actions, some matlab specific actions were assigned different keyboard shortcuts in different. A matlab favorite command is an easy way to run a group of matlab commands that you use regularly. Printing values to the command window matlab answers. Ive tested the two lines of code and they both work. Search text currently in the command window or command.
If you are trying to import command history between the two releases of matlab where one of the release uses history. Matlab saves statements that run in the command window to the history file history. In the example above, applying \n to each element had the net. Another way to display a variable is to type its name, which displays a leading x before the value. How do i import the command history from one version of. Figure property values related to printing, such as the paperpositionmode value, affect the behavior. Use the print command s loose option to prevent matlab from using a bounding box that is tightly wrapped around objects contained in the figure. The second instruction acutally creates the ascii file abc.
Matlab will start its own windowbased development environment if you get into trouble, you can interrupt octave by typing ctrlc to exit octave, type quit or exit. Use the fprintf function, which accepts a c printfstyle formatting string. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. If a variable contains an empty array, disp returns without displaying anything. To change the column where the comment text wraps or to disable automatic comment wrapping, go to the home tab and in the environment section, click preferences. Select the command window matlab mathworks benelux. To keep an activity log of your matlab session, use the diary function. Matlab provides various commands for managing a session. Matlab is an interactive program for numerical computation and data visualization. You can change the way numbers display in both the command window and the live editor.
This screencast gives a very basic overview of the powerful fprintf command in matlab, which allows you to display text with embedded, formatted references to workspace variables. For more information, try doc fprintf alternative ways to print information. It should be in your matlab installation folders around \toolbox\ matlab \graphics\ print. How can i access the saved command history in matlab. To restore the command window to the default location, go to the home tab, and in the environment section, click layout. Octave also allows you customize the details of when, where, and how history is saved. Commands from the history window can be copied and pasted, dragged and dropped.
Getting matlab command window history in windows paul kiddie. Well now you can go to pdf directly, and get a higher quality document than you would by going through word and then to pdf. Matlab uses the command history file for both the command history window and statement recall in the command window. Export figure matlab hgexport mathworks united kingdom. In matlab r2009b you can now publish your matlab code directly to a pdffile. You can save your commands list as a txt, html, csv or rtf file before closing the window so that you can have a backup of your entered commands. By default, matlab uses the short format 5digit scaled, fixedpoint values.
By default, matlab automatically saves the command history file after each statement. Paper orientation for printing or saving matlab orient. See write image data to file in graphics format for details if you want to print an image, use imshow to display the image in a matlab figure window. Printing multiple figures in matlab stack overflow. You can exclude statements from the command history and specify how many commands to save to the command history file, history. Type the following command in your command prompt window. The workspace browser does not refresh while input is waiting for a response from the user.
The second video of the series shows you how to use mfiles and display messages in the command window. The examples include the printing of the statement on the command window in matlab as well as. Therefore, if you run input within a script, the workspace browser does not display changes made to variables in the workspace until the script finishes running. Starting with matlab r2014a the commands are stored in an xml file history. Octave normally keeps track of the commands you type so that you can recall previous commands to edit or execute them again. Select matlab editordebugger language, and adjust the comment formatting preferences.