MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright.

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. User-Controlled Input and Output Chapter 7

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Objectives After studying this chapter you should be able to: Prompt the user for input to an M-file program Create output using the disp function Create formatted output fprintf sprintf Use graphical techniques to provide program input Use cell mode to modify and run M-file programs

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Section 7.1 User Defined Input To this point we have “hard coded” the values of variables into our M-file programs The input function allows us to prompt the user to enter a value

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. The input function is used in an M-file program to prompt the user to enter a value The prompt is displayed in the command window

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MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Input accepts a variety of data Scalars Matrices enter inside square brackets Character strings enter inside single quotes Or… specify string input with ‘s’

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Matrix input Character input Run this program twice more – once with numeric input and once with character input

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MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Section 7.2 Output Options Enter the name of a variable Use the disp function Use the fprintf function Use the sprintf function

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. disp The display (disp) function can be used to display the contents of a matrix without printing the matrix name

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MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Strings are really arrays of character information The result is a character array

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. You can combine disp functions to create meaningful output from an M-file program, but the result of each disp function is on a separate line.

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Since the disp function only takes one input, you must combine arrays to make more complicated output Use the num2str(x) function to change numeric information to a string disp(['The values in the x array are: ' num2str(x)])

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Although these characters look like numbers, they are interpreted by the computer as part of a character array – they no longer have any numeric meaning

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Hint If you want to include an apostrophe in a string, you need to enter the apostrophe twice. If you don’t, MATLAB thinks the apostrophe terminates the string. For example: disp('The moon''s gravity is 1/6th that of the earth')

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. This MATLAB program mimics a conversation, by using the input and disp functions.

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Formatted Output fprintf gives you more control over your output than the disp function You can combine text and numbers You can control how many digits to display, and their position

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. fprintf Arguments format-string includes place holders and formating information for numbers list of matrices

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. fprintf The fprintf command is more flexible than the disp command, and allows you to put both variables and text onto the same line

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Place holder for your variable value Variable 8 total spaces 2 after the decimal point floating point format

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MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. A is a matrix /n is a carriage return

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Despite the way it looks, the computer always considers a matrix as one big list, working down one column at a time

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Hint One of the most common mistakes new programmers make is to forget to include the f in the placeholder sequence. The fprintf function won’t work, but no error message is returned either.

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Hint If you want to include a percentage sign in an fprintf statement, you need to enter the % twice. If you don’t, MATLAB thinks the % is a placeholder for data. For example: fprintf('The interest rate is %5.2f % \n', 5) results in: The interest rate is 5.00 %

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Here’s another example that uses the input, disp and fprintf functions Write a program in an M-file that creates a table of degrees to radians Prompt the user to enter the table starting value, an increment between values, and a final value.

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Sending formatted output to a file First create and open an empty output file, and assign it a file identifier Add the file identifier to the first field in the fprintf function

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. File identifier any legitimate MATLAB name will do File name flag that identifies this as a file to which we can write Create and open an output file and assign it a file identifier

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Add the file identifier to the first field in the fprintf function The result in the command window is the number of characters in the output string The output string is sent to the specified file

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Double clicking on the file name in the current directory window causes an editing window to open – which displays the contents of the file

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. sprintf The sprintf function is similar to fprintf Instead of just sending the output to the command window, sprintf assigns the output a name, and then sends it to the command window

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. The result from fprintf is a character count The result from sprintf is the actual string Why is this useful? sprintf could be used to specify a string that is then used in a graph annotation

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. 7.3 Graphical Input You can enter ordered pairs of x and y values, by picking them off a graph ginput

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. ginput [x,y] = ginput Retrieves a set of ordered pairs from the graph everytime the enter key is struck [x,y]=ginput(n) Retrieves n ordered pairs

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Floating Crosshair When the ginput function is executed, a floating crosshair appears on the graph. Each time the enter key is struck, MATLAB picks the corresponding points off the graph

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Section 7.4 More Cell Mode Features Publish Value Manipulation

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. M-files that use cell mode, such as this one used to solve homework problems from chapter 5, can be published using MATLAB’s publish feature Publish Tab

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MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Results published in HTML

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. To publish in a different format, such as Word or PowerPoint, change the publish configuration From the file menu select File→Publish Configuration for…

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Section 7.5 Reading and Writing Data from Files Some common types of data files are dat txt xls jpg

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Import Wizard Use the import wizard to determine the data type and to suggest ways to represent the data Launch from the file menu From the uiimport funtion uiimport(‘filename.extension’)

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Command line approaches The import wizard requires interaction with the user MATLAB includes a series of import functions that automatically import the data You need to know what the data type is before you can use these

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Import functions To import a.mat or.dat file, use the load command Other functions can be found if you type doc fileformats For example, wavread can be used for wav files xlsread can be used for Excel files

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Exporting Data Use the save function for.mat or.dat files Use specialized functions for other file types For example xlswrite for Excel files

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Use the file menu to save a file interactively, using a variety of file formats

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. 7.6 Debugging Your Code The moth found trapped between a relay in Harvard’s MarkII Aiken Relay Computer – Image courtesy of the Naval Surface Warfare Center

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MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. When you run the file the tool strip reveals the debugging icons Step

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MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Summary The input function allows the user to interact with the program by entering data at a prompt The disp function displays information in the command window, and is especially useful for titles and labels

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Summary - fprintf The fprintf function is more versatile than the disp function and allows you to combine text and numeric information in formatted output

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Summary sprintf sprintf is similar to fprintf It allows you to save formatted output to a variable name, for later use in your program

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Summary - ginput The graphical input function allows the user to pick information off a graph, and store it as a series of ordered x-y pairs

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Summary – Cell Mode Cell mode allows the programmer to group M-file code into sections, and to run each section individually It includes options to publish M-files in html, Word or PowerPoint formats

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Summary – Importing and Exporting Data MATLAB includes a number of specialized import functions optimized for a variety of file formats Companion functions allow data to be exported in the same file formats

MATLAB for Engineers 4E, by Holly Moore. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. All rights reserved. This material is protected by Copyright and written permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Rights and Permissions Department, Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Summary – Debugging Tools MATLAB includes debugging tools that make it easier for you to find programming errors in your code

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