editvar

Arguments

varname

variable name. The variable must exist in the current Scilab environment.

Description

editvar is the Scilab variable editor.

editvar can be started by calling it on the name of the variable or by double-clicking on the name of the variable from the browsevar component.

editvar has numerous features:

• Matrix visualisation

  

• Undo/redo capabilities

• Cell editing

• Expression evaluation. Please note that editvar will not store the expression. Only the value.

  

• Advanced selection of elements (available with the CTRL key)

  

• Plotting

  

• Plotting of a subset

  

• Variable format (short, shortE, long or longE formats)

  

• Column / lines management (insert, delete, copy and paste, ... )

  

• Full copy and paste between Libreoffice/Openoffice or Microsoft Excel and Scilab (both ways)

  

• Renaming or copy of a variable

  

editvar can edit the following variable types:

• Real or complex constant matrix (type 1)

• Boolean matrix (type 4)

• Sparse matrix (type 5)

• Boolean sparse matrix (type 6)

• Integer matrix: 8, 16 & 32 bytes (type 8)

• Matrix of strings (type 10)

Examples

a=rand(10,10);
editvar a;
b=['hello';'good bye'];
editvar b;
sp=sparse([1,2;4,5;3,10],[1,2,3])
editvar("sp");

See also

• closeEditvar — Close the variable editor