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clc

Clear Command Window

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Syntax

clc

Description

clc clears all the text from the Command Window, resulting in a clear screen. After running clc, you cannot use the scroll bar in the Command Window to see previously displayed text. You can, however, use the up-arrow key ↑ in the Command Window to recall statements from the command history.

Use clc in a MATLAB® code file to always display output in the same starting position on the screen.

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Examples

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Clear all text from the Command Window before running a command.

Create a 8-by-8 matrix of random numbers.

rand(8)
ans =

    0.5241    0.3429    0.4210    0.3993    0.6164    0.6077    0.4169    0.5554
    0.1202    0.6382    0.0921    0.6976    0.2690    0.9480    0.3801    0.8463
    0.1778    0.3430    0.0240    0.2037    0.5597    0.0596    0.2133    0.4081
    0.7061    0.2165    0.4911    0.6663    0.9448    0.2687    0.3829    0.4620
    0.8314    0.7862    0.2783    0.4431    0.7145    0.9867    0.0297    0.8263
    0.0348    0.7231    0.3398    0.4333    0.6792    0.7722    0.4723    0.9912
    0.7578    0.2788    0.2873    0.1752    0.9594    0.4754    0.3334    0.5239
    0.9571    0.5824    0.1709    0.1932    0.7753    0.6809    0.9758    0.9254

Clear all text from the Command Window.

clc

Command Window will all text cleared

Create a 5-by-5 matrix of random numbers.

rand(5)
ans =

    0.0499    0.6014    0.6535    0.2990    0.0983
    0.5459    0.7896    0.4897    0.2561    0.8596
    0.9432    0.7992    0.9729    0.8866    0.0276
    0.3215    0.0496    0.7485    0.4468    0.8992
    0.8065    0.2832    0.5678    0.8160    0.8999

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

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