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MATLAB function which prints almost every input

The following MATLAB function can be used to print every input using fprintf, independent of its type. Since it doesn’t use mat2str(), it can also be used in MATLAB Coder code generation.

function printit(inputValue)
    if isnumeric(inputValue) || islogical(inputValue)
        % Print numeric/logical arrays element-wise
        fprintf('Input: %g \n', inputValue(:));
    elseif ischar(inputValue)
        fprintf('Input: %s\n', inputValue);
    elseif isstring(inputValue)
        fprintf('Input: %s\n', char(inputValue));
    elseif iscell(inputValue)
        disp('Input (cell):');
        disp(inputValue);
    elseif isstruct(inputValue)
        disp('Input (struct):');
        disp(inputValue);
    else
        disp('Input (unknown type):');
        disp(inputValue);
    end
end