"xlswrite" Generates A Negative Number for This Line

Dear All,

I find that the following command line "xlswrite(['test.xlsx'],{'(100,100,100)'});" gives me a line of "-100,100,100" in the output "test.xlsx" file, which is not in accord with the input string. Could anyone tell me why this happens and how to fix it ?

Many thanks !

Best regards,

Gary

Answer 1

[dpb]

It's a fignewton of how Excel interprets the string; enclosed in the parentheses it apparently tries to convert to a numeric value and presumes the parens indicate a negative value. As for "how to fix", what do you want the result to be in Excel--that literal string, a negative currency, an array of three integers, ...?

[Gary Leung]

thx dpb ! I would like it to be a literal string the same as "(100,100,100)".

[Walter Roberson]

Perhaps

xlswrite(['test.xlsx'],{'"(100,100,100)"'});