fwritecell

Write formatted data from a cell array to a text file.

Description

Functions such as FWRITE and FPRINTF do not offer the ability to directly write data from a cell array to a text file. This is where this function comes in.

fwritecell(filename, format, data) writes cell array "data" to the file with name "filename" using the C language conversion specifications in argument "format". The conversion specifications are the same as those used by SPRINTF.
Example syntax:
fwritecell('textfile1.txt','%2d %1d %21s %8.5f',C);
See detailed example below.

fwritecell(filename, data) writes cell array "data" using a fixed width format padded with whitespace. The field widths are determined automatically. Note that the decimal point for floating point numbers may not be aligned within columns.

The ZIP file contains fwritecell.m and fwritecell_example.m which contains the following code:

Example:

C={ 1, 2, 'hello', 3.45
   34, 2, 'this is a long string', 4
    2, 4, 'g', 24.13312};

% Recommended approach specifying field widths
% example %8.5f implies: at least 8 characters long
% with 5 after the decimal point
fwritecell('textfile1.txt','%2d %1d %21s %8.5f',C);

% Write fixed width. Note that the decimal points are not
% lined up
fwritecell('textfile2.txt',C);

% This call is similar to the first one, but note that the
% columns do not have a fixed width.
fwritecell('textfile3.txt','%d, %d, %s, %f',C);

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)
• Other Files: fwritecell_example.m, ; fwritecell.m