Does Matlab have the function to format script?

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Just wondering if Matlab has the function to format script, e.g., automatically add a space after a comma, or add spaces before and after an "=" when I press semicolon at the end of a statement, or select a block of script to be formatted and press some button. Thanks.

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 11 Jun 2016
No, MATLAB does not have that. Fortunately, David Varga recently mentioned releasing a beautifier; see https://github.com/davidvarga/MBeautifier

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 10 Jun 2016
Select your code, then right click with your mouse, you will see all possibilities you have. For example (ctrl+i) which is smart indent
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zzzhhh
zzzhhh on 11 Jun 2016
I didn't find any item in the context menu except smart indent that is related to code formatting as I mentioned in the question. Note that in my question the "format" does not refer to change of fonts, but more to proper addition of spaces and alignments.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 8 Jan 2022
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control-a, to select all text in your editor window, then
control-i, to fix (properly align) the indenting of your lines of code.

Florian Schanda
Florian Schanda on 13 Apr 2021
Edited: Walter Roberson on 13 Apr 2021
You might want to have a look at https://github.com/florianschanda/miss_hit

Julian Hapke
Julian Hapke on 11 Dec 2023
Here's a MATLAB snippet that depends on the undocumented tree2str and mtree, but produces a reasonable result:
tree2str(mtree(FILENAME, '-file', '-comments'))

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