How can I indent the output of display() and disp()?

I am writing a small snippet to display trees of objects hierarchically.

I want to use standard Matlab functions as much as possible, therefore, I want to use disp() to display at least everything I don't care about implementing display() myself.

Is it possible to add, say, 10 spaces on the left of the output produced by disp(a)?

so that instead of:

>> a = 5
a =  

   5

I had

>> a = 5
            a =
                5

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You can evalc() the disp to get aa character vector with newlines in it. you can modify that to add the required number of spaces and then display the results

[Lockywolf]

Wow! That's exactly the solution!

Answer 2

[KSSV]

USe fprintf

a = 5 ;
fprintf('       %f\n',a)

[Walter Roberson]

Trees of objects tends to suggest that the inputs are not necessarily numeric .

Answer 3

[madhan ravi]

Just use fprintf() or sprintf()

a=5;
fprintf('         a=\n')
fprintf('         %d\n',a)