lines

Arguments

nl

An integer, the number of lines for vertical paging control.

• If 0: no vertical paging control is done.

• If -1: reset vertical paging control to current size of the window.

nc

An integer, the number of column of output. Used for formatting output

ncl

A 1x2 vector [nc, nl]

Description

lines handles Scilab display paging.

lines() returns the vector [# columns, # rows] currently used by Scilab for displaying the results.

lines(nl) sets the number of displayed lines (before user is asked for more) to nl.

lines(0) disables vertical paging.

lines(nl,nc) and lines([nc,nl]) changes also the size of the output to nc columns.

When Scilab is launched without -nw option, the lines parameters are automatically set according to the output window size, these parameters are also automatically modified when the window is resized.

For duration, datetime, calendarDuration, timeseries and table objects, lines(0) and lines(0,0) displays them in full. By default, if these objects have more than 50 lines, the display is truncated and only the first three and last three lines are displayed.

Examples

lines(0,100)
rand(2,8)

lines(0,65)
rand(2,8)

--> lines(0,100)
--> rand(2,8)
 ans  =
   0.2113249   0.0002211   0.6653811   0.8497452   0.8782165   0.5608486   0.7263507   0.5442573
   0.7560439   0.3303271   0.6283918   0.685731    0.068374    0.6623569   0.1985144   0.2320748

--> lines(0,65)
--> rand(2,8)
 ans  =
         column 1 to 5
   0.2312237   0.8833888   0.3076091   0.2146008   0.3616361
   0.2164633   0.6525135   0.9329616   0.312642    0.2922267

         column 6 to 8
   0.5664249   0.3321719   0.5015342
   0.4826472   0.5935095   0.4368588

See also

• mode — sets or queries the mode echoing Scilab instructions in the console
• format — set the default output format of decimal numbers
• disp — displays variables
• print — prints variables in a file
• clc — Clear Command Window

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