New to Scilab -- Diary function question

[m***@gmail.com]

I have been unable to make the diary function actually do anything.
Is there some trick to it that I don't know about? Thanks in advance

[ycollet]

I use the scilab-nightly build under windows 2000.
I tried:
diary('log.txt');

then I entered some scilab commands and, after a while, I closed the
diary file using:
diary(0)

And I found all the commands in the file log.txt on my desktop.
use 'pwd' to see where the diary file will be saved.

YC

[m***@gmail.com]

Post by ycollet
I use the scilab-nightly build under windows 2000.
diary('log.txt');
then I entered some scilab commands and, after a while, I closed the
diary(0)
And I found all the commands in the file log.txt on my desktop.
use 'pwd' to see where the diary file will be saved.
YC

Alright, I got that figured out. Now my issue is that everything put
into the diary file is an utter mess, format-wise. Any tips for that?

[ycollet]

Alright, I got that figured out.  Now my issue is that everything put
into the diary file is an utter mess, format-wise.  Any tips for that?

Use wordpad instead of notepad. This is certainly an unix formated
file (\n instead of \n\t).

YC

[m***@gmail.com]

Post by ycollet

Alright, I got that figured out.  Now my issue is that everything put
into the diary file is an utter mess, format-wise.  Any tips for that?

Use wordpad instead of notepad. This is certainly an unix formated
file (\n instead of \n\t).
YC

Good tip. Thanks

[F. S. Farimani]

I managed to use diary to export whos result as a matrix using regular expressions:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/55021722/4999991