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Aide Scilab >> Console > lines

lines

rows and columns used for display

Calling Sequence

lines(nl)
lines(nl, nc)
lines(ncl)
ncl = 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.

See Also

  • disp — displays variables
  • print — prints variables in a file

History

VersionDescription
5.4.0
  • lines is set by default to 0. Argument -1 added. See SEP #67 for more information.
  • lines manages a 1x2 vector [nc, nl] as input argument
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