How to suppres command windows output

I need an easy way to suppress and bring back the command windows output without using and removing the semicolon all the time, since there are a lot of lines I need to see sometimes.

[Dennis]

Can you show an example why you want to remove the semicolon in the first place?

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

Sounds like you want to toggle output on and off probably for debugging purpose. In that case, you should be using the debugging tools instead.

Otherwise, a well written program should be explicit about wanting to display something to the command window, not leave it to the absence of a semi-colon, which most people (and matlab code analyser) would consider a coding error. So:

something = someexpression;   %always terminate with semicolon
if dooutput
    disp(something);      %Now it's clear that you want to display it and that it's not a mistake
end

[MARCO MENCHETTI]

Thank you, that is so easy I should have known.

Again, thank you for yor time.