Why does the command window display this message repeatedly?

Hi guys.

When I was working in the code editor, the following message would be displayed repeatedly in the command window from times to times, it says "Replace row r of matrix A by its sum with m times row p."

What happened?? Such matter has occured for several times and I cannot find any useful info about it from the Internet.

How can I fix this, or simply filter this message? Thanks in advance!

[Stephen23]

Are you using the function REPLACE from the LAYDATA toolbox? That function contains that exact message:

https://github.com/gmicros/MATLAB/blob/master/TOOLS/laylinalgebra/datafiles/MATLAB-Laydata%20Toolbox/replace.m

If so, the message seems to appear when the function is not called with all four of its input arguments.

Please show us the complete output of this command:

which replace -all

[Jasmine Feng]

I haven't used the function replace explicitly, but I did receive these messages when I was typing some function names in the editor (I didn't even run the script). Meanwhile, when I finished a statement with a semicolon before starting a new statement, the message would not show. I thinks this is too weird.

I executed "which replace all" and it gave the follows:

>> which replace -all

F:\MATLAB_code\linear-alg\Data Sets\replace.m

replace is a built-in method % string method

replace is a Java method % java.lang.String method

E:\MATLAB\R2021b\toolbox\matlab\bigdata\@tall\replace.m % tall method

E:\MATLAB\R2021b\toolbox\mbc\mbclayouts\@xregcontainer\replace.m % xregcontainer method

E:\MATLAB\R2021b\toolbox\mbc\mbcview\@cgddnode\replace.m % cgddnode method

E:\MATLAB\R2021b\toolbox\parallel\parallel\@codistributed\replace.m % codistributed method

E:\MATLAB\R2021b\toolbox\matlab\strfun\replace.m % Shadowed

[Torsten]

F:\MATLAB_code\linear-alg\Data Sets\replace.m

Is this an .m file from you ? Then you should rename the function and the file.

[Jasmine Feng]

@Torsten Thank u. Hope that should be useful. I may take some time to check whether the message will display again.