MATLAB Programming

Symbol Reference
Dot-Dot-Dot (Ellipsis) — ...
A series of three consecutive periods (...) is the line continuation operator in
MATLAB. This is often referred to as an ellipsis, but it should be noted that
the line continuation operator is a three-character operator and is different
from the single-character ellipsis represented in ASCII by the hexadecimal
number 2026.
Line Continuation
Continue any MATLAB command or expression by placing an ellipsis at the
end of the line to becontinued:
sprintf('The current value of %s is %d', ...
vname, value)
Entering Long Strings. You cannot use an ellipsis within single quotes
to continue a string to the next line:
string = 'This is not allowed and will generate an ...
error in MATLAB.'
To enter a string that extends beyond a single line, piece together shorter
strings using either the concatenation operator ([]) orthesprintf function.
Here are two examples:
quote1 = [
'Tiger, tiger, burning bright in the forests of the night,' ...
'what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?'];
quote2 = sprintf('%s%s%s', ...
'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree,', ...
'where Alph, the sacred river, ran ', ...
'through caverns measureless to man down to a sunless sea.');
Dot-Parentheses —.()
Use dot-parentheses to specify the name of a dynamic structure field.
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