I'm getting a new line (without adding \n) and an indented line when using the function input() (MATLAB Online)

Hello,

I have been trying to read the input from the user using the input function as shown below.

function open_webpage
    url = input("Enter the url: ", "s");

    while isempty(url)
        fprintf("You didn't enter any url. Please try again.\n")
        url = input("Enter the url: ", "s");
    end
end

The function works fine so far. However, when I run it, I keep getting a new line when prompted to enter the URL as shown below. Also, I don't understand why is the text indented.

I even checked the documentation and it seems I did everything correctly. Am I missing something?

[Dyuman Joshi]

Looks like an incostinent behaviour on MATLAB Online, as this does not happen on the MATLAB App (R2021a on Win 10)

You should contact technical support and report this - Contact Support

[Israe]

That's what I was indeed suspecting. Thank you for your help.

[Dyuman Joshi]

@Israe, did you contact Technical support?

What did they say? Is the issue resolved?

Answer 1

[prabhat kumar sharma]

Hi Israe,

I also reproduced this issue at my end and I found that there is an extra new line printed without using '\n' in matlab online while this behaviour is not in seen in matlab desktop app.

I'll recommend you to report this bug to Mathworks technical support.

[Taine]

I have this problem on the new desktop app, just to let anyone interested here know.