sprintf does not work when called from a function

I would like to use the advantages of sprintf over disp, but I have a problem with it. From my main function I invoke an other function which contains the command sprintf. As a result, nothing is printed out to the screen. That specific function is called many times, therefore I do not want to dismiss that function and use the main function only. What can I do? I need the formatting capabilities of sprintf that disp can not provide.

Thanks, Zoli

Answer 1

[dpb]

sprintf doesn't print to command window, it writes output to a string variable so unless you left the trailing ";" off the line in the m-file of the function that's expected behavior.(*)

Use fprintf instead...

doc fprintf  % for details

[Zoltán Csáti]

Thank you. This is what I was looking for.