difficulty in printing for 'cell' inputs.

I have a text file having sentences.I want to edit and print each sentence in a new line .I successfully edited but find difficulty in printing

fid1=fopen('edited_sentences_program3.txt','r');
fid2=fopen('edited_sentences_program4','w');
while ~ feof(fid1)
new_line = fgetl(fid1);
a=new_line;
b=strsplit(a);
c=[b(end)  b];
c(end)=[];
 fprintf(fid2,'%s\n',c)
end
fclose(fid1);
fclose(fid2);

when I run the code ;error is

"Function is not defined for 'cell' inputs." for line fprintf(fid2,'%s\n',c)

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

 fprintf(fid2,'%s\n',c{:})

[muaz shaikh]

This is sentence

 Why yell or worry over silly items?*/sx8

and required sentence in format like

 */sx8 Why yell or worry over silly items?

[Walter Roberson]

 fprintf(fid2,'%s\n', strjoin(c))

[muaz shaikh]

Thanks a lot Roberson it solved my problem

Answer 2

[Jan]

while ~ feof(fid1)
  a = fgetl(fid1);
  b = strsplit(a);
  c = [b(end)  b(1:end-1)];
  fprintf(fid2, '%s\n', c{:})
end

I've simplified the code. To print the elements of a cell, use c{:}, which converts the cell to a comma separated list of its elements.

The description is "print each sentence in a new line". You code prints each word in a new line and moves the last word before the others. Is this intended? If not, please post an example for the input and the wanted output.

[muaz shaikh]

This is sentence Why yell or worry over silly items? */sx8 and required sentence in format like */sx8 Why yell or worry over silly items?

[Jan]

@muaz: I have no idea about what this comment means. Nobody is yelling or worrying here and which is the silly item?

You've written "I successfully edited", but your code does not split the text to sentences, but words. Therefore your posted code is confusing. "*/sx8" is a strange format for a sentence. Can you clarify this?

[Jan]

Oh dear! "Why yell or worry over silly items? */sx8" was an example sentence. I did not get this.

Answer 3

[Unai San Miguel]

If you are OK with the contents and format of c maybe you can substitute the fprintf line by:

cellfun(@(x) fprintf(fid2, '%s\n', x), c)

This line will go element by element of the cell c and fprint it.

[muaz shaikh]

thanks mingue,Simon and Roberson;all three answers are given print with every word in a new line where as I want one sentence in one line.I have also tried many other methods but still not succeded...

Answer 4

[Jan]

Maybe you want this:

Str = fileread('edited_sentences_program3.txt');
Str(ismember(Str, char([10, 13]))) = [];  % Remove line breaks.
CStr = strsplit(Str, '.');

fid = fopen('edited_sentences_program4', 'w');
fprintf(fid, '%s.\n', CStr{:});
fclose(fid);

Or even easier:

Str = fileread('edited_sentences_program3.txt');
Str(ismember(Str, char([10, 13]))) = [];  % Remove line breaks
Str = strrep(Str, '.', ['.', char(10)]);  % Insert new line breaks after each dot

fid = fopen('edited_sentences_program4', 'w');
fwrite(fid, Str, 'char');
fclose(fid);

Maybe even "?" and "!" are valid ends of a sentence. What about "..."? Where does a sentence end, if it contains direct speech?

 She said, "I will be at home." and I said, "Me too!"

So please post a relevant input and what you want as output. This would make it much easier to help you to solve your problem.

[muaz shaikh]

thanks Simon problem is already solved..you also give a good option

[Jan]

If a given suggestion helped you to solve the problem, please accept it such that the readers care for other questions, which are still open. If no answer helped you, it would be kind if you post your own solution and accept it. This would be useful for the forum.