Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation

M1.9. Summary of Commonly Used Commands

axis	axis limits for plots
clear	removes all variables from workspace
diary	save the text of a MATLAB session
end	end of loop
exp	exponential function
figure(n)	generates a figure window
for	generates loop structure
format	output display format
function	user generated function
gtext	place text on a plot
help	help function
hold	holds current plot and allows new plot to be placed on current plot
if	conditional test
length	length of a vector
lookfor	keyword search on help variables
plot	plots vectors
size	size of the array (rows, columns)
subplot	multiple plots in a figure window
who	view variables in workspace
whos	view variables in workspace, with more detail (size, etc.)
*	matrix multiplication
'	transpose
;	suppress printing (also end of row, when ...