How to Print a Numerical Vector to a List?

Hello,

I have an array with multiple vectors each with thousands of numbers and I want to print each of these vectors to a list of strings, each with a specific format and with a maximum of 8 numbers per list.

For example:

I have a vector temp = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13]

I want to print this vector to two strings like this

str1 = '+,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,'

str2 = '+,9,10,11,12,13,'

It would be useful to save each string to a separate entry on an array because later these strings will be printed to a .txt file.

I have tried to do this but I always have trouble with the last line that may not have the desired 8 elements..

Does anyone know a clean way to do this?

Here are some printscreens to try to clarify:

The red rectangle is my reference ID

The green rectangle is the matrix with the numbers I want to print

The blue column is the vector of numbers I want to print (This is inside the previous green rectangle)

And finally, this is how the printed file will look like

Can anyone help me?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

[dpb]

fmt=[' +,' repmat('%d,',1,8)];      % format w/ extra blank each line for delimiter later
str=split(sprintf(fmt,vec),' ');    % write to string, break into substrings at delimiter
str(1)=[];                          % eliminate first empty record/string

>> str
str =
2×1 cell array
  {'+,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,'}
  {'+,9,10,11,12,13,'    }
>>

ADDENDUM

Put delimiter at end of record instead--

fmt=['+,' repmat('%d,',1,8) ' '];
>> split(sprintf(fmt,tmp),' ')
ans =
  2×1 cell array
    {'+,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,'}
    {'+,9,10,11,12,13,'  }
>>

[Gonçalo Pimenta]

It's perfect dpb!

Thank you very much!

[dpb]

Actually, can be made "even more perfect"!

Use

fmt=['+,' repmat('%d,',1,8) ' '];

to place the delimiter at the end of each record and won't get the empty first record and thus can eliminate the need to strip it from the result...