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### 5.3 Creating Strings

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 `blanks` creates a string of a given length consisting only of blank characters (ASCII code 32).

blanks (n)

  Return a string of n blanks.

  For example:

      blanks (10);
      whos ans
           ⇒
            Attr Name        Size                     Bytes  Class
            ==== ====        ====                     =====  =====
                 ans         1x10                        10  char

  See also: repmat.