MATLAB: How to indent the output of display() and disp()

Question

I am writing a small snippet to display trees of objects hierarchically.

I want to use standard Matlab functions as much as possible, therefore, I want to use disp() to display at least everything I don't care about implementing display() myself.

Is it possible to add, say, 10 spaces on the left of the output produced by disp(a)?

so that instead of:

>> a = 5
a =  
   5

I had

>> a = 5
            a =
                5

Answer 1

You can evalc() the disp to get aa character vector with newlines in it. you can modify that to add the required number of spaces and then display the results