Question answered, thanks: question on line break using fprintf

Hi

I need to write several lines of text to the user. I am using fprintf, but even though I write the text on consecutive lines, using fprintf each time, it all gets put together to one long string when I execute the program. Could someone please tell me how I get line breaks in the text?

Thanks a bunch!

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Include the ‘newline’ ('\n') character at the end of each line:

fprintf('This is the first line\n')
fprintf('This is the second line with two newline characters to provide a blank line\n\n')
fprintf('This is the third line\n')

See the documentation for fprintf, specifically Text Before or After Formatting Operators, for details.

Answer 2

[James Tursa]

Include the newline \n at the end of the text where you want the line break. E.g.,

fprintf("This is the first line\n");
fprintf("This is the second line\n");

[Karen Christensen-Dalsgaard]

Hi James Thanks for your quick answer. I tried it and unfortunately, if didn't work. It just printed the /n in the string and then continued with the next string. Any ideas?

[Karen Christensen-Dalsgaard]

Works now, James, thanks a bunch!

[Image Analyst]

Karen, note that /n is different than \n. The backslash is a special character that means the next character has a special meaning, while the forward slash is just a regular character. That's why you saw what you saw.