How to use \n and \t with sprintf to set the string of a ui control

I am trying to take what was originally printed using fprintf in the command window and have it print within a static textbox using sprintf. However, I cannot get the '\n' and '\t' commands to print multiple lines of information in an organized way. Does anyone know how to do this?

I am concatenating different lines by saying temp = sprintf('Hello'); x = strcat(x, temp); temp = sprintf('How is your day?'); x = strcat(x, temp);

set(DISPLAY.htext, 'String', x);

Answer 1

[KL]

You could use a cell array,

C = {'Hello!'; 'How are you?'};
x = sprintf('%s\n%s',C{1,1},C{2,1});

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

The UIcontrol properties help page explains how to define the string value to get multiple lines:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.ui.control.uicontrol-properties.html#property_d119e1088574

The exact method varies slightly between control types, but in general you can't go wrong with a cell array of char vectors: each char vector will be one line in the uicontrol.