`blanks`

Character vector made of space characters.

Category: Language Fundamentals > Data Types

Syntax

s = blanks(n)

Returns a 1-by-n char array of spaces.

Description

blanks is a convenient way to build padding or separators when assembling text by concatenation, as in ['Name:' blanks(4) 'Ana']. It is equivalent to repmat(' ', 1, n).

A negative or non-integer n is an error.

Input arguments

n: Nonnegative integer scalar.

Output arguments

s: Char row vector of n spaces; blanks(0) is empty.

Example

Padding text

s = ['[' blanks(3) ']']
length(s)

Output

s = '[   ]'
ans = 5

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