# Is there anything similar to "..." in Matlab to write a Matrix over several lines?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [September 20, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-anything-similar-to-in-matlab-to-write-a-matrix-over-several-lines/68490 "2021-09-20T17:39:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Amro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Amro)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-anything-similar-to-in-matlab-to-write-a-matrix-over-several-lines/68490/1 "2021-09-20T17:39:01Z")

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I there a way in julia to write similar to the below in Matlab?

```matlab
L = [1 2 3;...
     4 5 6;...
     7 8 9];

```

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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-anything-similar-to-in-matlab-to-write-a-matrix-over-several-lines/68490/2 "2021-09-20T17:40:32Z")

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Yeah, just don’t add the `...`

```julia
L = [1 2 3;
     4 5 6;
     7 8 9];

```

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**Author:** ![Amro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Amro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Amro)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-anything-similar-to-in-matlab-to-write-a-matrix-over-several-lines/68490/3 "2021-09-20T17:42:48Z")

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> [@Oscar\_Smith](#):
>
> Yeah, just don’t add the `...`

Very cool, thank you!

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**Author:** ![bkamins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bkamins/32/208538_2.png) [@bkamins](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bkamins)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-anything-similar-to-in-matlab-to-write-a-matrix-over-several-lines/68490/4 "2021-09-20T17:50:29Z")

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Just add line breaks:

```julia
julia> L = [1 2 3
            4 5 6
            7 8 9]
3×3 Matrix{Int64}:
 1 2 3
 4 5 6
 7 8 9

```