How to apply fprinf for matrix

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Ali
Ali on 27 May 2016
Commented: Ali on 27 May 2016
I would like to use fprintf for Writing data to a text file. I want to apply fprintf on the following matrix. I have a matrix with n rows and 3 columns. please help with this issue. thanks a lot. for instance.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
0.0000 0.1000 0.0000
0.0643 0.0675 0.0000
0.1000 0.0000 0.0000
0.0000 0.2000 0.0000
0.2000 0.0000 0.0000
0.0725 0.1500 0.0000
0.1488 0.0873 0.0000
0.0726 0.2501 0.0000
0.0000 0.3000 0.0000
0.0000 0.4000 0.0000
0.3000 0.0000 0.0000
0.4000 0.0000 0.0000
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 27 May 2016
Edited: Stephen23 on 27 May 2016
Don't use a loop! See my answer to know how.

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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 27 May 2016
Edited: Stephen23 on 27 May 2016
This is MATLAB, so there really is no point in using an ugly loop when you can do it much faster and simpler with just one csvwrite call:
csvwrite('test.csv',M)
or with one fprintf call (no loop is required!):
M = [...
0.0000,0.0000,0.0000;...
0.0000,0.1000,0.0000;...
0.0643,0.0675,0.0000;...
0.1000,0.0000,0.0000;...
0.0000,0.2000,0.0000;...
0.2000,0.0000,0.0000;...
0.0725,0.1500,0.0000;...
0.1488,0.0873,0.0000;...
0.0726,0.2501,0.0000;...
0.0000,0.3000,0.0000;...
0.0000,0.4000,0.0000;...
0.3000,0.0000,0.0000;...
0.4000,0.0000,0.0000];
%
fid = fopen('test.csv','wt');
fprintf(fid,'%f,%f,%f\n',M.')
fclose(fid);
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Ali
Ali on 27 May 2016
Thanks a lot for helping me to solve this issue.

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Stalin Samuel
Stalin Samuel on 27 May 2016
%example code
s = rand(10,3);
fileID = fopen('a.txt','w');
for i=1:length(s)
fprintf(fileID,'%g\t%g\t%g \r\n',s(i,:));
end
fclose(fileID);

TastyPastry
TastyPastry on 27 May 2016
fh = fopen('newFile.txt','w');
for i=1:size(myData,1)
fprintf(fh,'%d %d %d\n',a(i,1),a(i,2),a(i,3))
end

Guillaume
Guillaume on 27 May 2016
Why not simply use dlmwrite?
dlmwrite('test.csv', M, 'delimiter', ' ');
or if you want to specify the precision
dlmwrite('test.csv', M, 'delimiter', ' ', 'precision', '%6.4f');

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