diff --git a/doc/snippets/MatrixBase_triangularView.cpp b/doc/snippets/MatrixBase_triangularView.cpp
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+Matrix3i m = Matrix3i::Random();
+cout << "Here is the matrix m:" << endl << m << endl;
+cout << "Here is the upper-triangular matrix extracted from m:" << endl
+     << Matrix3i(m.triangularView<Eigen::Upper>()) << endl;
+cout << "Here is the strictly-upper-triangular matrix extracted from m:" << endl
+     << Matrix3i(m.triangularView<Eigen::StrictlyUpper>()) << endl;
+cout << "Here is the unit-lower-triangular matrix extracted from m:" << endl
+     << Matrix3i(m.triangularView<Eigen::UnitLower>()) << endl;
+// FIXME need to implement output for triangularViews (Bug 885)