Save matrix from "writematrix" to clipboard

Hi, I need to save a matrix to the clipboard. Because the points need to be seperated by comma, I used the function "writematrix".

a = [1 2 4;5 6 7;8 9 10];
writematrix(a,'Bachelorarbeit.txt')
type Bachelorarbeit.txt

1,2,4
5,6,7
8,9,10

Now i need to save the matrix shown in Matlab to the clipboard. Is there a way to do so? I could not find anything.

Thanks for helping me.

[Md. Al-Imran Abir]

There is a function named clipboard (clipboard) which might help you.

[Tim Schaller]

Hi, I already tried it with clipboard. The problem is that I need to save it in the exact way it is shwon in the text file. But I don't know how to do that.

Answer 1

[dpb]

You've got to create the entire text as a string or char() variable.

It would be more efficient to avoid the intermediary disk file...

a = [1 2 4;5 6 7;8 9 10];
fmt=[repmat('%g,',1,size(a,2)-1) '%g\n'];
clipboard('copy',sprintf(fmt,a.'))
content=clipboard("paste")

content = 
    '1,2,4
     5,6,7
     8,9,10
     '

[Tim Schaller]

Hi dpd,

this is execatly what I was looking for. But can you tell me why it loses so many decimal places? For the intentuon that I created my code I need more than 2-4 decimal places, that's why I have chosen 'format long', but in this part of the code it changes to about 2-4 digits.

[Tim Schaller]

in my code the matrix looks like this, but is much longer

a =

0 0 1.000000000000000

0.017150418627992 0 0.823370357174576

0.072731407686129 0 0.654969826345343

0.167425334872282 0 0.505049838368501

0.293716496272837 0 0.380416474388619

0.441054925718054 0 0.281320429539904

[Tim Schaller]

I fugured it out by myself. You just need to change the mode of sprintf form g to f.

Thank you so much!