Can I return the xml string from writestruct?

I am successfully using the "writestruct()" function to export my structure to XML but due to the application this xml is being read into afterwards I need to do a bit of tweaking to the output file contents.

Is there a way to return the generated XML string rather than have Matlab write it to file? I can fopen/fprintf my modifed xml string easily enough afterwards.

[Stephen23]

writestruct does not provide an option to return the generated XML as a string.

[Martin Dale]

yes, I know that the writestruct function does not naturally return the xml string but was hoping to find out if there was a matlab internal function somewhere within matlab.io.xml.internal that does return the xml string.

Answer 1

[Matt J]

You can't suppress file output, but you can use readlines and writelines to retrieve the file contents in string form and then modify them.