fprintf does not print a new line

I am working in windows 8, 64 bits, with matlab R12b

I need to export data that contains several lines of script and numerical information, The problem is that fprintf does not recognize the carrige return command and what I get in the output file is a single row that concatenates all the rows I and exporting.

I've been reading at Matlab central and it seams to be not solved bug. I've tried all the variants I've found: a) to use

fid = fopen('pruebafprintf.txt','wt');

• insted of

fid = fopen('pruebafprintf.txt','w');

b) use \r\n or \n or \n\r in

fprintf(fid, '%s %d %g %g %d %d %d  %g %g\n\r', [char(paciente) num2str(compilado(row,:))]);

but didn't solve the problem. Here is a code example:

compilado = [231 0.00523810000000000 0.278930000000000 1 1 0 0 0;
               252 0.00571430000000000 0.865600000000000 2 2 2 0.00560000000000000 0.856400000000000;
               271 0.00614510000000000 0.898010000000000 4 4 0 0 0;
               306 0.00693880000000000 0.815730000000000 5 5 5 0.00680000000000000 0.844400000000000];
  paciente = 'AD17'
  fid = fopen('pruebafprintf.txt','wt');
  [rows,cols]=size(compilado);
  for row=1:rows,
  fprintf(fid, '%s %d %g %g %d %d %d  %g %g\n\r', [char(paciente) num2str(compilado(row,:))]);
  end
  fclose(fid);

How can I solve this problem? I 've to export a large amount of data. Thanks Maria Eugenia

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

How are you displaying/retrieving the text? Different programs handle the \n and \r differently, like MSWord, notepad, wordpad, etc. I use fprintf() all the time and it works. Maybe you need to use an editor that can display the characters in hex so you can see if the 10 and 13 are actually being written out to the file. If you're getting them, then it's not a problem with fprintf(), but a problem with how you're displaying the text.

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

I see the problem. Note that you are specifying a series of numeric field descriptors, then writing string variables to them:

fprintf(fid, '%s %d %g %g %d %d %d  %g %g\n\r', [char(paciente) num2str(compilado(row,:))]);

See if changing to something like this works:

fprintf(fid, '%s %d %g %g %d %d %d  %g %g\n\r', paciente, compilado(row,:));