How do I capture the output from "display"

Hello, I've got a fairly complicated structure containing multiple fields of various types and substructures also.

I want to print a "summary" of the structure out and would like to just take the output from the "display" function. However, it appears that there is no way to capture this other than a copy and paste (done manually). Does anybody know I capture the output from the display function so that I can write it to an ascii file?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Honglei Chen]

Hi Eric,

If there is no native support to capture display, you can try diary function. Something like this:

diary FILENAME
display()
diary off

Your FILENAME will contain the session history.

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

It can be done using evalc, though I wouldn't recommend it:

x = evalc('disp(''hello world'')');

I would recommend generating a string with sprintf and perhaps fieldnames?