From: Michael Stachowsky on
Just out of curiosity, the character "$" appears in red in a matlab window, indicating it's a special character. What does it do?

MIKE
From: Matt Fig on
Why not ask MATLAB?

docsearch('dollar sign')
From: Wayne King on
"Michael Stachowsky" <mstachowsky(a)gmail.com> wrote in message <hvvu6n$fng$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> Just out of curiosity, the character "$" appears in red in a matlab window, indicating it's a special character. What does it do?
>
> MIKE

Hi Mike,
See the help regexp and regexprep

Wayne
From: Jan Simon on
Dear Mike,

> Just out of curiosity, the character "$" appears in red in a matlab window, indicating it's a special character. What does it do?

No idea. But ยง, # and " appear in read also.

Anyhow, if you look at this:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/285387
it seems that the $ is made to get 1000 of them by filling a form???

Jan
From: us on
"Michael Stachowsky" <mstachowsky(a)gmail.com> wrote in message <hvvu6n$fng$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> Just out of curiosity, the character "$" appears in red in a matlab window, indicating it's a special character. What does it do?
>
> MIKE

well...
did you carefully look at what happens

>>$
%{
??? $
|
Error: The input character is not valid in MATLAB statements or expressions.
%}
% as well as for some other characters, eg,
>>_

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