8
disp(['counter ' num2str(blk) (here I need a tab!!!) 'adc ' num2str(adc_nr)])
Cris Luengo
  • 55,762
  • 10
  • 62
  • 120
kame
  • 20,848
  • 33
  • 104
  • 159
  • (This should have been tagged [tag:tab] and not [tag:tabs], which is about *"multiple user interface elements, e.g. browser tabs"*) – smci Feb 13 '18 at 11:40
  • There is no tab-Tag. – kame Feb 13 '18 at 12:24
  • the aliases must be acting weird. You can type 'tab' in the tag field and it's recognized as being distinct from 'tabs'. – smci Feb 13 '18 at 18:38

2 Answers2

15

Try

disp(['counter ' num2str(blk) 9 'adc ' num2str(adc_nr)])

Explanation: Usually if you want to insert a tab, you put a '\t' in the string. This works well for sprintf, but the disp command doesn't interpret it properly. So one solution is to put the ASCII value of the tab directly, which is '9'.

smci
  • 32,567
  • 20
  • 113
  • 146
groovingandi
  • 1,986
  • 14
  • 16
  • ASCII 009, also written as \t in more user-friendly languages... It's really nasty to see a magic 9 inside a string display command. – smci Feb 13 '18 at 11:37
0

The above answer is absolutely correct. However, here is a more readable way to do the same:

disp("counter " + blk + char(9) + "adc " + adc_nr)

Tried on MATLAB R2023a Update 2

Pratyush Kumar
  • 1
  • 4