Scilab Website | Contribute with GitLab | Mailing list archives | ATOMS toolboxes
Scilab Online Help
5.5.1 - English

Change language to:
Français - 日本語 - Português - Русский

Please note that the recommended version of Scilab is 2025.0.0. This page might be outdated.
See the recommended documentation of this function

Scilab Help >> 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
Report an issue
<< diary Console prompt >>

Copyright (c) 2022-2024 (Dassault Systèmes)
Copyright (c) 2017-2022 (ESI Group)
Copyright (c) 2011-2017 (Scilab Enterprises)
Copyright (c) 1989-2012 (INRIA)
Copyright (c) 1989-2007 (ENPC)
with contributors
Last updated:
Thu Oct 02 13:47:01 CEST 2014