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<h3 class="section">5.3 Creating Strings</h3>
<p>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 <code>blanks</code> creates a string of a given length consisting
only of blank characters (ASCII code 32).
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— Function File: <b>blanks</b> (<var>n</var>)<var><a name="index-blanks-287"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return a string of <var>n</var> blanks, for example:
<pre class="example"> blanks(10);
whos ans;
⇒
Attr Name Size Bytes Class
==== ==== ==== ===== =====
ans 1x10 10 char
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<p class="noindent"><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="doc_002drepmat.html#doc_002drepmat">repmat</a>.
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