editvar

Scilab variable editor

Calling Sequence

editvar varname

Arguments

:varname variable name. The variable must exist in the current Scilab

environnement.

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Description

editvar is the Scilab variable editor.

editvar can be started by calling it on the name of the variable or by double-clicking on the name of the variable from the browsevar component.

editvar has numerous features:

• Matrix visualisation
• Undo/redo capabilities
• Cell editing
• Expression evaluation. Please note that editvar will not store the expression. Only the value.
• Advanced selection of elements (available with the CTRL key)
• Plotting
• Plotting of a subset
• Variable format (short, shortE, long or longE formats)
• Column / lines management (insert, delete, copy and paste, ... )
• Full copy and paste between Libreoffice/Openoffice or Microsoft Excel and Scilab (both ways)
• Renaming or copy of a variable

editvar can edit the following variable types:

• Real or complex constant matrix (type 1)
• Boolean matrix (type 4)
• `Sparse matrix`_ (type 5)
• Boolean sparse matrix (type 6)
• Integer matrix: 8, 16 & 32 bytes (type 8)
• Matrix of strings (type 10)

Examples

a=`rand`_(10,10);
editvar a;
b=['hello';'good bye'];
editvar b;
sp=`sparse`_([1,2;4,5;3,10],[1,2,3])
editvar("sp");