Re: Turn off intermediate answers in script?

[Quentin Spencer]

James Knowles wrote:

> I can't find this in the archives or the help files.
>
> I have several .m scripts that I wrote to analyse large amounts of 
> data. However, as each operation is executed, the normal response one 
> sees on the command line is displayed. With arrays of 44 columns of 
> 18,000+ rows of data it's hard to find the printf() output in the sea 
> of uninterested details.
>
> Can I silence these unwanted "ans" etc. messages when running a 
> script? They're normally wanted at the command line, of course.
>
> Thanks!

Add a semicolon to the end of the lines that are producing output, as in 
the example below:

octave:1> a=1
a = 1
octave:2> a=1;
octave:3>



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