newbie ``print`` question

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/09/2012 18:23, gwhite wrote:
> I can't figure out how to stop the "add a space at the beginning"
> behavior of the print function.
>
>>>> print 1,;print 2,
> 1 2
>
> See the space in between the 1 and the 2 at the output print to the
> command console?
>
> The help for print is:
>
> "A space is written before each object is (converted and) written,
> unless the output system believes it is positioned at the beginning of
> a line."
>
> So it is apparently doing what it is supposed to do.
>
> Is there a way to stop this?  Or is there a different function that
> will only print what you have in the formatted string?
>
> For example, in MATLAB I only had to do:
>
>>> fprintf('1');fprintf('2')
> 12
>
>   fprintf works the same way if printing to a file.  It only puts in
> what you explicitly tell it to put in.
>

I'd settle for print 12, YMMV.

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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.