fprintf not working properly

It's not often that i need to create .txt files with results, so I may have forgotten the procedure, even though it seems rather simple. Nevertheless I find that the output i generate looks wrong.

fid = fopen('output.txt','w+');
for i=1:length(out)
 fprintf(fid,'%f\t%s\n',out(i),comment{i});
end
fclose(fid)

Although its rude it should do the job of listing values with a comment next to it on each line. BUT IT JUST CONCATENATES IT INTO ONE LONG STRING. It's rather frustrating, am I doing something wrong, or is anything out of the ordinary on my PC?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

fid = fopen('output.txt','wt+');  %notice the t

Answer 2

[Jason Ross]

I bet whatever you are using to open the file doesn't interpret the newline as a newline. You could try using \r, or you could see if there is a setting in whatever program you are using to honor newline correctly. You could also try another program to open the file (are you using Notepad? Try Wordpad)

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fprintf.html