Write Cell Array to Text File

A cell array is written to a delimited output file, incl. options for appending & custom delimiters.

Description

This submission works similar as Sylvain Fiedlers / Rob Kohrs "cell2csv.m". Thus, any cell array containing numbers and/or strings can be written to an output file.

dlmcell.m, however, has two main advantages:

(1) It is possible to append the cell array to an existing file.

(2) Even numbers or words that are stored as <1,1> cell within the cell array can be read.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
cell2csv

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.8 (R2009a)

[Jeff Evans]

works perfectly! just as described.

[Yonatan Cal]

Thanks for this file!

[Russ Branaghan]

 

[Fabio Gori]

It makes my life simpler!

[hugotang Tang]

This function is good, thanks, man!

[Ivan Brezani]

perfect, thanks!

[Rossella Blatt]

Very useful! Works perfectly! Thanks.

[Boris]

 

[Matt Fetterman]

Its OK. I had a problem...could be a Mac thing. Instead of making a new line in the file, the text appeared in the file as "Hello\n", that is the special characters appeared in the file.
To get around the problem I changed the program to read:
fprintf(fid,'%s\n',astring)
That is, I put the special character directly in the second parameter. Then it created a new line.

[Truc Phan]

works great! thanks

[Seth]

 

[Michael]

so awesome!

[Jane T]

Like Matt I was having a problem with the '\t' appearing in the file. I'm running 2011a in Windows 7.
I changed line 100 to read 'fprintf(output_file,delimiter);'

[Ismael Seanez]

 

[Michael Krause]

Great function, works awesome, was clearly missing as a built-in. Well done. (gave it 5 stars, but it's not showing up in Chrome??)

[Evan]

This is an extremely useful script (thank you!) but I'm running into a little problem executing from Linux - slashes are appended between the fields before an after the delimiter - any ideas?

Example output text:
\Filename\,\StartDate\,\EndDate\,\Number of Measurements\

[daisy Dai]

Great function! We've had problem with cell2csv, thanks to dlmcell that solves our trouble!

[none]

excellent.