How to know where the >> are in the command window?

I would like to know if there is a matlab command to know where the '>>' will be at the end of a function execution.

For example if I do

fprintf('AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA')

I will get on the next command line

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA>>

The '>> ' are in the different position than the default position when I open Matlab. Is there a way to get where that position is?

Thanks

[Stephen23]

"Is there a way to get where that position is?"

Not trivially, as it depends on the characters printed, including backspace and newlines...

What do you want this for?

[Marine Piou]

Sometimes (not always) a function will display a message. Because that function is in a forloop, the message will be duplicated. I don't want to use the '\n' because I don't want to pollute my screen with the same message n times (so n lines). n can vary between 1 and 0.5million.

I would like at the end of my forloop to check where the position of the chevron >> would be (this depends if a message was displayed or not and of the number of times the message was displayed inside the forloop). If no message is displayed, the chevron >> would be at a start of a line, thus I don't want to do anything. If a message (or several) was (were) displayed, I want to put back the chevron >> at the beginning of the line.

Thanks

[Stephen23]

There is no trivial way to do this once the strings have been printed.

The simplest approach is to keep track of this yourself, by adding a flag to your code that indicates if that particular message has been printed or not.

[Marine Piou]

Thanks for your answer, I'll see how I can add a flag inside my code.

Answer 1

[Adam]

Just use

fprintf('AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA\n')

instead and it will put the new line at the end so that the >> will be on the next line where you expect it to be.

[ME]

The original posted has said in a comment above:

"I don't want to use the '\n' because I don't want to pollute my screen with the same message n times (so n lines). n can vary between 1 and 0.5million."