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> How do you display both a text and a numerical value for a variable in just
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> x = 2;

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> "Ben " <benlawr2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
<gq8s3k$n21$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > How do you display both a text and a numerical value for a variable in
just one line. For example, here are my variable
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> > x = 2;
>>
> > How do i display the result as
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> > The value of x is 2.
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> > disp('The value of x is'); disp(x);
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> > but the numerical value is not in line with the text.
> > Thanks
> Hi,
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just one line. For example, here are my variable
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"Joe Sababa" wrote in message <gq8tll$g69$1@fred.mathworks.com>...

> "Ben " <benlawr2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
<gq8s3k$n21$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > How do you display both a text and a numerical value for a variable in
just one line. For example, here are my variable
>>
> > x = 2;
>>
> > How do i display the result as
>>
> > The value of x is 2.
>>
> > I tried
> > disp('The value of x is'); disp(x);
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> > but the numerical value is not in line with the text.
> > Thanks

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A small typo though:
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On 3/28/2017 11:08 AM, Amal Elawad wrote:

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better I think to use sprintf. More standard and can

have more control on formating.

>> x=pi; sprintf('The value of x is %f\n',x)

The value of x is 3.141593

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On 03/28/2017 4:45 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

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> better I think to use sprintf. More standard and can

> have more control on formating.
>
>>> x=pi; sprintf('The value of x is %f\n',x)
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> The value of x is 3.141593

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NUM2STR()
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>> num2str(pi,'The value of x is %f')
ans =
The value of x is 3.141593
>>

:)

The advantage is NUM2STR automatically builds arrays that SPRINTF()

can't...

>> x=[1:3].'*pi;
>> num2str(x,'The value of x is %f')
ans =
The value of x is 3.141593
The value of x is 6.283185
The value of x is 9.424778
>> whos ans
Name Size Bytes Class Attributes
ans 3x26 156 char

>> sprintf('The value of x is %f\n',x)

ans =
The value of x is 3.141593
The value of x is 6.283185
The value of x is 9.424778

>> whos ans

Name Size Bytes Class Attributes
ans 1x81 162 char

>>

While the second case superficially _looks_ the same on the screen,
that's only because of the embedded \n; it's still just one long string
in actuality.

OTOH, the NUM2STR() result is a 3xN character array so the three

elements can be addressed individually. This is specifically of much
use in writing values for ticks or specific graphs or legends or
labeling bars in histograms, etc., etc., etc., where the vectorized
return is invaluable.

For a single string it really makes no difference; as you say SPRINTF()

serves just as well but there's a reason NUM2STR() exists.

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