Printing NetList on Notepad in a proper format

Hi, I have generated a SPICE NetList as a 4 column table in Matlab. When I print it to a text file using 'writetable' command,the columns in the text file generated are very haphazard. I want the output text file to contain the table in the same format as is given by the command window output, like a neat matrix.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

nrow = size(YourTable, 1);

fid = fopen('YourOutputFile.txt', 'wt');
for K = 1 : nrow
  fprintf(fid, '%-20s %-20s %8f %8f\n', YourTable{K,1}, YourTable{K,2}, YourTable{K,3}, YourTable{K,4});
end
fclose(fid);

[Guillaume]

tables have height and width methods, so

nrow = height(YourTable);

is more aesthetically pleasing and less demanding on the brain, in my opinion.

[Himanshi Rani]

I get an error in the fprintf as 'Error using fprintf: Function is not defined for 'cell' inputs.' I am using Matlab 2016a. What is the reason for this and how to rectify it?

[Walter Roberson]

Either you accidentally used YourTable(K,1) instead of YourTable{K,1} or else your table contains cell arrays inside the entries. If it does contain cell arrays inside the entries then you need to define how you want those multiple entries to be saved.

It would help if we had a representative sample of your table.