why xlswrite writes each letter of the string into each cell of excel?

I used xlswrite to write a string which is the mixture of letters and numbers into the excell cell. I want each string to be written in 1 cell but it wirtes each letters of the string to each cell.

I tried using cell arrays but it did not work.

Any suggestion?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You are probably passing a character vector, which is technically an array.

Passing a cell array of character vectors will work with Windows with Excel installed. For other operating systems or if Excel cannot be reached then xlswrite requests get converted into dlmwrite requests of csv (text), and that cannot handle cell arrays.

The solution is to use writetable from r2013b, or writecell or writematrix from r2019b

[Zeynab Mousavikhamene]

I am working with 2018b. I can promote to later one but afraid some functions are changed and I get error.

[Walter Roberson]

writetable then, possibly after cell2table() or array2table()