# editvar

Scilab variable editor

## Calling Sequence

    editvar varname

## Arguments

varname

  variable name. The variable must exist in the current Scilab environnement.

## Description

`editvar` is the Scilab variable editor.

`editvar` can be started by calling it on the name of the variable or by double-clicking on the name of the variable from the browsevar component.

`editvar` has numerous features:

- Matrix visualisation

- Undo/redo capabilities

- Cell editing

- Expression evaluation. Please note that editvar will not store the expression. Only the value.

- Advanced selection of elements (available with the CTRL key)

- Plotting

- Plotting of a subset

- Variable format (short, shortE, long or longE formats)

- Column / lines management (insert, delete, copy and paste, ... )

- Full copy and paste between Libreoffice/Openoffice or Microsoft Excel and Scilab (both ways)

- Renaming or copy of a variable

`editvar` can edit the following variable types:

- Real or complex constant matrix (type 1)

- Boolean matrix (type 4)

- Sparse matrix (type 5)

- Boolean sparse matrix (type 6)

- Integer matrix: 8, 16 & 32 bytes (type 8)

- Matrix of strings (type 10)

## Examples

    a=rand(10,10);
    editvar a;
    b=['hello';'good bye'];
    editvar b;
    sp=sparse([1,2;4,5;3,10],[1,2,3])
    editvar("sp");

## See Also

- closeEditvar