(octave.info)Creating Strings

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5.3 Creating Strings
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The easiest way to create a string is, as illustrated in the
introduction, to enclose a text in double-quotes or single-quotes.  It
is however possible to create a string without actually writing a text.
The function ‘blanks’ creates a string of a given length consisting only
of blank characters (ASCII code 32).

 -- : blanks (N)
     Return a string of N blanks.

     For example:

          blanks (10);
          whos ans
               ⇒
                Attr Name        Size                     Bytes  Class
                ==== ====        ====                     =====  =====
                     ans         1x10                        10  char

     See also: Note: repmat.

Concatenating Strings

Converting Numerical Data to Strings