disp

Display text or array

Syntax

• disp(X)
  

Description

disp(X) displays an array, without printing the array name. If X contains a text string, the string is displayed.

Another way to display an array on the screen is to type its name, but this prints a leading "X =," which is not always desirable.

Note that disp does not display empty arrays.

Examples

One use of disp in an M-file is to display a matrix with column labels:

• disp('         Corn         Oats         Hay')
  disp(rand(5,3))
  

which results in

•          Corn         Oats         Hay
          0.2113        0.8474        0.2749
          0.0820        0.4524        0.8807
          0.7599        0.8075        0.6538
          0.0087        0.4832        0.4899
          0.8096        0.6135        0.7741