How do I properly use xlswrite?

I have the code below in my function, however it doesn't write the data as I expected. instead of writing '2018-19 Auburn Women Basketball Home game as of 03/23/2019' all in cell A1 it puts each character in a different cell. This is happening with all of my string data.

lastGameDate = [stats(sRows, 1), stats(sRows, 2), stats(sRows, 3)];
xlsTitle = sprintf('2018-19 Auburn Women Basketball Home games as of %02.0f/%02.0f/%d',...
    lastGameDate);
xlswrite(FILENAME, xlsTitle, OUTSPREADSHEET, 'A1')

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Try

xlswrite(FILENAME, {xlsTitle}, OUTSPREADSHEET, 'A1')

However if you are not using MS Windows or if you do not have Excel installed on MS Windows, then xlswrite cannot handle the task for you: without Excel on Windows, xlswrite is restricted to pure numeric values or to putting one character in each cell. If that situation applies to you then consider using writetable()

[Matthew Covington]

Thank you! This works perfectly

[Matthew Covington]

Well, not all the way. Cell A1 does have the correct string. But also B1 has a 0 and C1 has a 1 and D1 has an 8 and so on. Still confused as to why it does this. Also my computer is on Microsoft 10 and I do have Excel installed, not sure why it's doing this

[Walter Roberson]

Is it possible those were already in the spreadsheet? Xlswrite does not remove content from cells it is not writing to.

[Matthew Covington]

That was the case, thanks for all the help