How to print the string value using fprintf

Hi,

a = (aa bb cc dd)

for ion = 1: 1: length (a)

and some lines of code

then later i have some functionality

---------------
p = a (ion);

Results if i use

fprintf ( "% 10s" , p);
error: fprintf: wrong type argument 'cell'

suppose if i use

disp (p)
output
{
  [1,1] = aa
}

I just want the 'aa' as the output using fprintf only

How do i do that? Kindly help.

Answer 1

[Rik]

The error message explains what is going on: you are trying to use a cell as input to fprintf. fprintf will not 'unpack' that for you, so you'll have to do it on your own:

fprintf ( "% 10s" , p{1});

[Ganesh Kini]

Thanks!

But do you have any other way / method of representing it?

[Rik]

What do you mean?

[Ganesh Kini]

Instead of p {1} do you have any other alternative ?

[Rik]

I don't understand why you are asking this. Is something not working? Your question showed that p is actually a scalar cell with some contents. If you use curly braces you can access those contents, which is what p{1} does.

Because it doesn't make sense to search for an alternative if this code works, I am guessing this code is not working for you. So what is going wrong?

[Ganesh Kini]

The code is working and I am getting the output as expected.

Just for improving my knowledge i wanted to know if there are other ways of representing it.

[Rik]

For the p{1} part you don't have a choice. The only possibility is to use the curly braces sooner:

p = a{ion};

[Ganesh Kini]

Okay, Thanks! :)

[Stephen23]

"...i wanted to know if there are other ways of representing it."

There is no "representing" occuring, it is simply the MATLAB syntax for accessing the contents of a cell array:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/access-data-in-a-cell-array.html