Cell Array to CSV-file [improved cell2csv.m]

Version 1.6.0.0 (2.76 KB) by Jerry
Writes cell array content into a *.csv file.
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Updated 10 Jul 2014

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now works with empty cells, numeric, char, string, row vector, and logical cells.
row vector such as [1 2 3] will be separated by two spaces, that is "1 2 3"
other types will be converted to the string "NA".
One array can contain all of them, but only one value per cell.
2x times faster than Sylvain's codes (8.8s vs. 17.2s):
tic;C={'te','tm';5,[1,2];true,{}};C=repmat(C,[10000,1]);cell2csv([datestr(now,'MMSS') '.csv'],C);toc;

credits go to Sylvain Fiedler:
modified and optimized from Sylvain Fiedler's codes at http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/4400-cell-array-to-csv-file--cell2csv-m-

To get csv back to cell, use csv2cell(). There are a couple of that on fileexchange. I have packed them into a single library together with other useful routines. Feel free to check at http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47193-easy-matlab-and-shell-interaction-library--ez-m-

Cite As

Jerry (2024). Cell Array to CSV-file [improved cell2csv.m] (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47055-cell-array-to-csv-file-improved-cell2csv-m), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2009a
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Inspired: fcell2csv - Fastest Cell Array to CSV-file

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Version Published Release Notes
1.6.0.0

link to my ez library

1.5.0.0

updated file description

1.4.0.0

replace repmat with subfunction

1.3.0.0

fixed a printing bug

1.2.0.0

made the parsing of arg more robust.

1.1.0.0

changed the title of this matlab page (nothing about codes itself)

1.0.0.0