Matlab, Fourth Edition: A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving
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The results of the following expressions that are given below, and then verify the answers of the expressions using MATLAB.
lnstr = '1234567890';
mystr = ' abc xy';
newstr = strtrim(mystr)
length(newstr)
upper(newstr(1:3))
sprintf(‘Number is %4.1f’, 3.3)
Assume that these expressions are typed sequentially in the Command Window.
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