Creating Strings - GNU Octave

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5.3 Creating Strings

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 blanks creates a string of a given length consisting only of blank characters (ASCII code 32).

— Function File: blanks (n)

Return a string of n blanks, for example:

          blanks (10);
          whos ans;
               ⇒
                Attr Name        Size                     Bytes  Class
                ==== ====        ====                     =====  =====
                     ans         1x10                        10  char

See also: repmat.