verbatim: Get the text of a block comment.

Verbatim returns the text contained in the next block comment.
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Updated 22 Mar 2009

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Have you ever wanted to include a block of text in your m-file without having to worry about quotes ('), end-of-line characters (\n) and other formatting issues? Verbatim will return exactly the text contained in the block comment following the call to verbatim. Example:

str = verbatim;
%{
This is the text
that will be returned by verbatim.
%}

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Douglas Schwarz (2024). verbatim: Get the text of a block comment. (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23194-verbatim-get-the-text-of-a-block-comment), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2009a
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Version Published Release Notes
1.1.0.0

Updated for R2009a and added automatic removal of indentation.

1.0.0.0