Re: Change the format of text file generated from MATLAB code

On 2/24/2013 3:46 PM, dhiraj wrote:
>
>> Depends what you are using for output:
>> fid=fopen(txtfile,'wt');
>> fprintf(fid,'%0.3f\n',out); % One per line
>> fclose(fid);
>> is one way to get what you want.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> But when I use this, my text file loose the original data and gives me
> 112.000 101.000
> 114.000 109.000 120.000 50.000 54.000 50.000 54.000 46.000 105.000
> 110.000 99.000, these random numbers.
>
> I also tried using above code in the code, where I am actually
> generating the file, though it displays numbers in the format I want,
> but in the saved text file they are still in the format of 6.89000+002.

You're not showing something then...

 >> format shorte
 >> x
x =
    6.9905e+01 8.0573e+01 7.9433e+01 8.0573e+01 7.9433e+01
    6.9194e+01 8.3739e+01 7.9607e+01 8.3739e+01 7.9607e+01
    7.0976e+01 8.1974e+01 7.8440e+01 8.1974e+01 7.8440e+01
    7.5127e+01 7.9528e+01 7.7089e+01 7.9528e+01 7.7089e+01
    7.7340e+01 8.0202e+01 7.7317e+01 8.0202e+01 7.7317e+01
 >> fid=fopen('test.dat','wt');
 >> fprintf(fid,[repmat('%8.3f',1,5) '\n'],x');
 >> fid=fclose(fid);
 >> type 'test.dat'

   69.905 80.573 79.433 80.573 79.433
   69.194 83.739 79.607 83.739 79.607
   70.976 81.974 78.440 81.974 78.440
   75.127 79.528 77.089 79.528 77.089
   77.340 80.202 77.317 80.202 77.317

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