dlmwrite with text and numbers

I am wanting to transfer data that is input into a UI to a csv file. I am using dlmwrite currently but keep running into the issue of the csv not functioning properly. Dlmwrite is outputting nonsense text, and I frankly am lost on what to try. I've done all I know how to do.

[Bob Thompson]

Can you post your code so far, as well as a sample of the current output, and why it doesn't line up with what you're looking for?

[Daelyn Greene]

I can't post my code (it's over 200 lines) but I can put a description of input vs output.

The items that are input to the UI are patient age, weight, height, name, study ID number, time, whether or not the patient is osteoporotic, gender, ethnicitiy, which bone, and a couple other things.

The output (which works when I use xlswrite(M.....)) is supposed to transfer over the input values to a csv that can be looked at and read at a later date. What it is actually exporting to the csv looks like this:

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[per isakson]

dlmwrite, Write matrix to ASCII-delimited file says dlmwrite(filename,M) writes numeric data in array M to an ASCII format file, i.e not text

[Daelyn Greene]

Do you know of a workaround for that then? Like how to transfer the text to a number array or something like that.

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Something like

for jj = 1: len
    fprintf( fid, '___\n', num(jj), txt{jj} )
end

is a standard approach

Another answer is under the tab, Examples, of tprintf, tprintf writes tabular data to a text file.

[Daelyn Greene]

I will try that. Thanks for the help!