Re: *printf Understanding

[Keith Goodman]

On 3/7/06, Bill Denney <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have an application where I want to output a file with indenting (the
> XML I was mentioning earlier).  I thought that I would just use the %*s
> feature to output a string that is the size of my indentation, but I found
> that code like
>
> sprintf('%*s', 0, ' ')
>
> returns a single space instead of an empty string as I expected.
>
> Is that the way it's supposed to work?  If so, is there a better method
> for doing this?

Would this work?

>> N = 0; spacer = repmat(' ', 1, N);
>> printf('%s|\n',spacer)
|
>> N = 10; spacer = repmat(' ', 1, N);
>> printf('%s|\n',spacer)
          |
>>

Or '\t'?



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