### 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).

— Function File: 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.