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bug #65637: `short_disp` doesn't show ellipsis at end of long arrays

Submitter:  Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Submitted:  Wed 24 Apr 2024 05:22:56 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Interpreter Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Patch Submitted Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Thu 25 Apr 2024 03:53:02 PM UTC, comment #5: 

I agree. It looks nicer with your changes.

I tested with your example classdef. The output looks nice and much more informative that before.
A also checked with a series of short and long variables of different types and how they are display in the "Value" column of the workspace panel in the GUI. That also looks good to me.

I don't have any strong feelings of whether this should go on the default or stable branch (maybe slightly leaning towards the default branch now).

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Wed 24 Apr 2024 07:24:13 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I don't think your latest change is the right thing for printing "]".  Maybe the attached change instead?  But now this is not such a trivial change and I'm not sure of the best way to indicate that a character array has been truncated.

I tested with


classdef boolmxcls
  properties
    x01 = reshape (1:9, 1, 9);
    x02 = reshape (1:10, 1, 10);
    x03 = reshape (1:11, 1, 11);
    x04 = reshape (1:8, 2, 4)';
    x05 = reshape (1:10, 2, 5)';
    x06 = reshape (1:12, 2, 6)';
    x07 = reshape (1:9, 9, 1);
    x08 = reshape (1:10, 10, 1);
    x09 = reshape (1:11, 11, 1);
    x10 = reshape (1:8, 4, 2)';
    x11 = reshape (1:10, 5, 2)';
    x12 = reshape (1:12, 6, 2)';
    x20 = @sin;
    x21 = 13;
    x22 = {1, 2, 3, "foobar"};
    x23 = 1:2:200;
    x24 = struct ('a', {1, 2, 3}, 'b', {4, 5, 6});
    x25 = "this is a very long string this is a very long string this is a very long string this is a very long string this is a very long string this is a very long string";
  endproperties
endclassdef



(file #55971)

John W. Eaton <jwe>
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Wed 24 Apr 2024 05:41:21 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Good point. An updated patch is attached.

The changes are pretty minor and might avoid confusion for some users. Is it worth applying them on the stable branch? (It doesn't fix any real issue. Just a cosmetic change...)


(file #55970)

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Group administrator
Wed 24 Apr 2024 05:37:25 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Maybe it should also add a final "]" character so that it displays


[1 2 3 ...]


instead of


[1 2 3 ...


?

John W. Eaton <jwe>
Group administrator
Wed 24 Apr 2024 05:27:43 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The attached patch adds three dots if some elements aren't shown in the output of `short_disp`.


(file #55969)

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Group administrator
Wed 24 Apr 2024 05:22:56 PM UTC, original submission:  

As noted in bug #62432, `short_disp` doesn't indicate that an array was truncated when it has more than a (hard-coded) number of elements.

It would probably ideal if `short_disp`

  • would append an ellipsis to truncated arrays,
  • had a configurable number of maximum elements to display,
  • had a notion of line length of the console output.


I have a patch for the first item almost ready.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2024-04-29 rik5 StatusNone Patch Submitted
    2024-04-24 jwe Attached File- Added bug65637-short_disp-ellipsis-v3.patch, #55971
    2024-04-24 mmuetzel Attached File- Added bug65637-short_disp-ellipsis-v2.patch, #55970
    2024-04-24 mmuetzel Attached File- Added bug65637-short_disp-ellipsis.patch, #55969

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