Is it possible to have output in an input format?

Eg, if you type

>> var1

in the command line, that it would output:

var1 = [1, 2, 3, 4];

instead of

ans = ...

This could be usefull, to give output from one file to another by manually copy-pasting it ..

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

dm = @(M) fprintf('%s = %s\n', inputname(1), mat2str(M));

Then

dm(var1)

Answer 2

[Andrew Newell]

It would take a little programming. Your example could be done with

disp(['var1 = [',num2str(var1),']'])

but you'd need special cases to deal with other types such as strings.

Do you know about save?