Saving in txt format in Matlab with commas and semicolons

I have a huge matrix in Matlab that I want to save in .txt format (or in any other text format).

Suppose the matrix is

      A =

               1     2     3
               4     5     6
               7     8     9

If I type

save prova.txt A -ASCII

I get the matrix in .txt format as

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

(in an horrible exponential form, actually)

I would like to get instead

1, 2, 3;

4, 5, 6;

7, 8, 9;

Can you help me? In addition, do you know a way to make the exponential form disappear?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Use

fid = fopen(filename, 'wt');
if fid ~= -1
    for row = 1 : size(A, 1);
        fprintf(fid, '%d, %d, %d;\n', A(row, 1), A(row, 2), A(row, 3));
    end
    fclose(fid);
end

[MRC]

What's filename in my case? Should I save before?

I can't type explicitly each row of A because it is a huge matrix in reality.

[Image Analyst]

You can pick whatever filename you want.

You must be saving this as a text file. If it was a binary file or a .mat file then you wouldn't care at all about commas and semcolons because you would not see them at all.

If A has a huge number of columns, you can do

outputString = sprintf('%d, ', A(row, :));
% Get rid of final command and space and add a semicolon instead
fprintf('%s;', outputString(1:end-2));