Error printing double format value

Hi I'm having a problem right now using print() to print double format value. The problem occured in a longer code but since then I realized it was happening for the print() function. The code

a = 1;
print(a)

gives the error:

Error using checkArgsForHandleToPrint

Handle input argument contains nonhandle values.

Error in checkArgsForHandleToPrint

Error in print>LocalCreatePrintJob (line 101)

handles = checkArgsForHandleToPrint(0, varargin{:});

Error in print (line 38)

[pj, inputargs] = LocalCreatePrintJob(varargin{:});

Error in test (line 2)

print(a)

Any way to solve this? Thanks.

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

fprintf('%d', a)
doc fprintf