How can I combine charactor array with a numerical arrays?

I have more than 1000 data sets like the attached file, just need to extract all the details except GG and NN. I jus use the following programme to import from text file and extract the details. but I can not combine the character array and numeric array after running the programme.

filename = 'L:\R1.txt';
delimiter = {',','-'};
formatSpec = '%s%s%s%s%s%*s%*s%s%[^\n\r]';
fileID = fopen(filename,'r');
dataArray = textscan(fileID, formatSpec, 'Delimiter', delimiter,  'ReturnOnError', false);
fclose(fileID);
raw = repmat({''},length(dataArray{1}),length(dataArray)-1);
for col=1:length(dataArray)-1
    raw(1:length(dataArray{col}),col) = dataArray{col};
end
numericData = NaN(size(dataArray{1},1),size(dataArray,2));

for col=[2,3,4,5]
rawData = dataArray{col};
    for row=1:size(rawData, 1);
     regexstr = '(?<prefix>.*?)(?<numbers>([-]*(\d+[\,]*)+[\.]{0,1}\d*[eEdD]{0,1}[-+]*\d*[i]{0,1})|([-]*(\d+[\,]*)*[\.]{1,1}\d+[eEdD]{0,1}[-+]*\d*[i]{0,1}))(?<suffix>.*)';
        try
            result = regexp(rawData{row}, regexstr, 'names');
            numbers = result.numbers;
             invalidThousandsSeparator = false;
                if any(numbers==',');
                 thousandsRegExp = '^\d+?(\,\d{3})*\.{0,1}\d*$';
                   if isempty(regexp(thousandsRegExp, ',', 'once'));
                    numbers = NaN;
                    invalidThousandsSeparator = true;
                end
            end

               if ~invalidThousandsSeparator;
                  numbers = textscan(strrep(numbers, ',', ''), '%f');
                  numericData(row, col) = numbers{1};
                  raw{row, col} = numbers{1};
              end
          catch me
          end
      end
  end
  rawNumericColumns = raw(:, [2,3,4,5]);
  rawCellColumns = raw(:, 1);
  v = rawCellColumns(:, 1);
  D1 = cell2mat(rawNumericColumns(:, 1));
  D2 = cell2mat(rawNumericColumns(:, 2));
  D3 = cell2mat(rawNumericColumns(:, 3));
  t = cell2mat(rawNumericColumns(:, 5));

but then I can not use the disp([v D1 D2 D3 t]). if I use it there is an error. please kindly help me to solve this problem

[Stephen23]

" I can not combine the character array and numeric array"

This is correct: numeric arrays are numeric arrays, and character arrays are character arrays. They are different things. They don't just "combine" into something that you can display (see ##).

If you are interested in displaying numbers and characters then you should just use fprintf.

## Of course it is easy to convert a character array to its equivalent character values, which are numeric, but these are not usually what people wish to display...

[Nadeera Gunartna]

when i use this "fprintf('%.2f %.2f\n', [v D1].')" display this error

"Error using horzcat Dimensions of matrices being concatenated are not consistent.

Answer 1

[Eric Lowry]

You are seeing an error when you run your disp command because you are concatenating v, which is a cell array, with D1, D2, D3, and t, which are matrices. You could use something like this, instead:

disp([v num2cell(D1) num2cell(D2) num2cell(D3) num2cell(t)]);

This will convert the matrices into cell arrays and concatenate the results.

[Nadeera Gunartna]

its works. Thank you. I appreciate it.