if I want to save a formatted string to memory, but not to print it out, what command(s) would I use?

fprintf, sprintf, disp, or echo?

I know that fprintf and sprintf create formatted strings and disp does print out so I'm confused on what the answer would actually be.

thank you!

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

I would save the output of sprintf to a cell array:

For example:

for k1 = 1:5
    out{k1,:} = sprintf('This is iteration #%d', k1);
end

Experiment to get the result you want.

[Star Strider]

I did the second originally, but changed it to the first because it then becomes a column vector, and it was easier to read it and verify that it works. The code works either way.