cprintf: a pedestrian ND array formatting and display utility

cprintf converts an ND array or ND cell array to a 2D character array and - optionally - a table

Description

CPRINTF
- converts
  an ND array of
  - real and/or complex full numeric data
  - real and/or complex sparse numeric data
  - logical data
  - char strings
  - structures
  - other objects
  or an ND cell array of any combination of the above
  to a 2D character array
- creates tables
  - the input may be a cell array formatted as a table with
    row/column labels and row/column separators
  - any simple (ND) array can be formatted as a table using
    any combination of
    row/column labels and row/column separators

many options allow to format each aspect of the input and output

to better organize a project using CPRINTF
- options may be entered by an option structure
- options may be read from any ASCII file
- options may be saved in an executable m-file, which
  returns an option structure

saving output
- the output may be saved in an ASCII file
- optionally, a file template may be used to insert the
  result at a marked position
- tokens in a file template may be replaced by user defined
  strings during runtime

CPRINTF may be a useful front end engine to create input for a spreadsheet program

see
> help cprintf
and the accompanying published M-file for more information and examples

use
> cphelp
to open the published M-file in a ML browser window

> cpdoc
to run the examples used in the published M-file

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b)
• Other requirements: optimized for r2009a

[Felipe G. Nievinski]

Would you consider replacing this block (~ l.1050):

try
v=par.s2f('@(x) x'); % WARNING only
v(10); % ERROR to catch
catch %#ok
par.s2f=@eval;
end

for this one:

[msg_str_old, msg_id_old] = lastwarn('', '');
par.s2f('@(x) x'); % WARNING only
[msg_str, msg_id] = lastwarn(msg_str_old, msg_id_old);
if strcmp(msg_id, 'MATLAB:str2func:invalidFunctionName')
par.s2f=@eval;
end

I'm asking because sometimes I have to run code using dbstop if caught error.
Thanks!

[us]

hi cyberfrog

unfortunately, this is not possible...
you have to create the complete CELL in your loop and append it afterwards using the -fa option...
note: you could use the -Lc option to create the column labels at write-time...

us

[Yoni]

So I looked at the part you mentioned and it doesn’t do what I want. I’m trying to avoid xlswrite because I have a mix of strings and numbers. Is there any way to make cprintf do the actual file output but without any spaces for padding?

[Yoni]

I may well have missed that part. It’s a pretty long file and searching it for “tab” or “space” brings up a lot of hits. I’ll peruse that part. Thanks!

[us]

hi yonatan

did you look at the last section in CPDOC(?)...
--- input to xlswrite

it shows how to use the content of
r=cprintf(m,'-so',1,...,...);
r.cell
including
res=strtrim(r.cell);
to create (for instance) excel data

us

[Yoni]

This function is great for quickly and easily printing a cell array to a text file without worrying too much about format strings. But I can’t figure out how to prevent it from doing any padding with spaces. I’d like to output to a strictly tab-delimited file. I’ll probably be reading said file into excel or SPSS, so I don’t need the spaces for alignment, but I can’t figure out any way to leave them out entirely. (..., 'ntab', 1) isn’t doing it. Am I missing something, or is that functionality absent.

Thanks

[qooroo]

one of the most useful and definitely *the* best well made/structured/documented entry in the FEX

[qooroo]

 

[Shaun]

I quick question. If I create a column of numbers to reference the rows in my table, I would like to associate those numbers with a hyperlink. While I can perform this operation, the spacing/formatting of the column labels becomes quite ugly. Is there a simple solution?

By the way, I really enjoy using your function. It's great!

[ANSHUL]

 

[Hal 9000]

 

[us]

gordon,
1) you show the input to FPRINTF; how do you call CPRINTF?
2) the error message indicates that some input values are not defined(?)
can you clarify?
thanks
us

[Gordon Ariho]

I have tried cprintf on both release 7.5 and 7.8 but i get 'undefined function or variable...' I have tried to use fprintf but it disorganises the matrix

fprintf('Distance \t Path_loss \t Rx_Power \t SNR \n');fprintf('%f \t %f \t %f \t %f \n',K)

[Y Mehta]

 

[Shaun]