Displaying information from MATLAB without a line feed

Question

Is there any way to output/display information from a MATLAB program without an ending line feed?

My MATLAB program outputs a number a bit now and then. Between outputti

Answer 1

The fprintf function does not add a line feed unless you explicitly tell it to. Omit the fid argument to have it print to the Command Window.

fprintf('Doing stuff... ');
for i = 1:5
    fprintf('%d ', i);
    % do some work on that pass...
end
fprintf(' done.\n'); % That \n explicitly adds the linefeed

Using sprintf won't quite work: it creates a string without a line feed, but then if you use disp() or omit the semicolon, disp's own display logic will add a line feed.