suppressing printing every assignment

Question

I have written a simple script in Octave. When I run it from the command line, Octave prints a line every time a variable gets assigned a new value. How do I suppress that?

MWE:

function result = stuff()     result = 0     for i=0:10,         j += i     end end 

when I run it:

octave:17> stuff() result = 0 result = 0 result =  1 result =  3 result =  6 result =  10 result =  15 result =  21 result =  28 result =  36 result =  45 result =  55 ans =  55 octave:18>  

I want to get rid of the result = ... lines. I am new to Octave, so please forgive me asking such a basic question.

Answer 1

by adding a semicolon at the end of your statement it will suppress the intermediate result.

In your case:

function result = stuff()     result = 0;     for i=0:10,         j += i;     end end 

will do the trick.

Answer 2

Like in matlab just add a ; (semicolon) to the end of a line you don't want output to the terminal.