On Jan 21, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> This is a bit of a dumb question, I think, but in spite of using Matlab (and Octave) for years, I actually have very little experience in low level file handling. Anyway, I have a file containing text and numerical data which I can read into a cell array using textread. But there doesn't seem to be a comparable "textwrite" to write the amended cell array back to another text file.
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> So - what is the most foolproof way of writing a cell array, containing text and numerical data, to a text file?
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> For example, suppose that every row in the array contains a first and last name, along with age, height (in metres) and weight (in kilograms), like
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> Leaonhard, Euler, 74, 1.6, 72
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> So each row in the array contains five elements: two string values (the names), one integer value, and two floating point values.
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> Thanks,
> Alasdair
Is the example below sufficient?
octave:1> a = {"Leaonhard", "Euler", 74, 1.6, 72; "Ben", "Abbott", 48, 1.83, 54};
octave:2> fprintf ("%s, %s, %d, %.2f, %.1f\n", a'{:})
Leaonhard, Euler, 74, 1.60, 72.0
Ben, Abbott, 48, 1.83, 54.0
Ben