<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Printing Notation - GNU Octave</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Octave"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Conventions.html#Conventions" title="Conventions"> <link rel="prev" href="Evaluation-Notation.html#Evaluation-Notation" title="Evaluation Notation"> <link rel="next" href="Error-Messages.html#Error-Messages" title="Error Messages"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Printing-Notation"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Error-Messages.html#Error-Messages">Error Messages</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Evaluation-Notation.html#Evaluation-Notation">Evaluation Notation</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Conventions.html#Conventions">Conventions</a> <hr> </div> <h4 class="subsection">1.3.3 Printing Notation</h4> <p><a name="index-printing-notation-13"></a> Many of the examples in this manual print text when they are evaluated. In this manual the printed text resulting from an example is indicated by ‘<samp><span class="samp">-|</span></samp>’. The value that is returned by evaluating the expression is displayed with ‘<samp><span class="samp">⇒</span></samp>’ (<code>1</code> in the next example) and follows on a separate line. <pre class="example"> printf ("foo %s\n", "bar") -| foo bar ⇒ 1 </pre> </body></html>