<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Creating Strings (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))</title> <meta name="description" content="Creating Strings (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="keywords" content="Creating Strings (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" rel="index" title="Concept Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Strings.html#Strings" rel="up" title="Strings"> <link href="Concatenating-Strings.html#Concatenating-Strings" rel="next" title="Concatenating Strings"> <link href="Character-Arrays.html#Character-Arrays" rel="prev" title="Character Arrays"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="octave.css"> </head> <body lang="en"> <a name="Creating-Strings"></a> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Comparing-Strings.html#Comparing-Strings" accesskey="n" rel="next">Comparing Strings</a>, Previous: <a href="Character-Arrays.html#Character-Arrays" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Character Arrays</a>, Up: <a href="Strings.html#Strings" accesskey="u" rel="up">Strings</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <a name="Creating-Strings-1"></a> <h3 class="section">5.3 Creating Strings</h3> <p>The easiest way to create a string is, as illustrated in the introduction, to enclose a text in double-quotes or single-quotes. It is however possible to create a string without actually writing a text. The function <code>blanks</code> creates a string of a given length consisting only of blank characters (ASCII code 32). </p> <a name="XREFblanks"></a><dl> <dt><a name="index-blanks"></a><em></em> <strong>blanks</strong> <em>(<var>n</var>)</em></dt> <dd><p>Return a string of <var>n</var> blanks. </p> <p>For example: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">blanks (10); whos ans ⇒ Attr Name Size Bytes Class ==== ==== ==== ===== ===== ans 1x10 10 char </pre></div> <p><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="Special-Utility-Matrices.html#XREFrepmat">repmat</a>. </p></dd></dl> <table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Concatenating-Strings.html#Concatenating-Strings" accesskey="1">Concatenating Strings</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Converting-Numerical-Data-to-Strings.html#Converting-Numerical-Data-to-Strings" accesskey="2">Converting Numerical Data to Strings</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"> </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>