App Designer - Writing Data to Txt File

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I on 16 Feb 2021
Commented: I on 19 Feb 2021
I am building a GUI using app designer and I want to be able to input data into the GUI and then write it into a text file.
The data should write as a vector
I used fprintf, but I'm no expert on app designer and it didn't seem to work.
Does anyone have an example of how to write data to a text file using app designer?

Answers (1)

Reshma Nerella
Reshma Nerella on 18 Feb 2021
Hi,
To write data into a file, use fopen to open file. It gives a fileID to identify the open file.
Now you can write data into the file using fprintf and fileID.
Close the file using fclose after writing data into it.
For instance,
v = 1:5 %vector you want to insert
Now write it in the text file
f = fopen('filename.txt','w'); %Open or create new file for writing. Discard existing contents, if any.
fprintf(f,'%d\n',v); % Writes every element of vector in a new line in the file
fclose(f); % Close the file
Hope this helps!
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I on 19 Feb 2021
I think I get how this would work, but it seems like v needs to be pre defined whereas I would like to define the variables in the form of a vector after running the app. Is it possible to proceed in this order:
  1. Run the app
  2. Define the vector
  3. Then right the matrix to the text file
Thanks for your input so far.

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