how to fprintf an matrix containing strings and numbers

So I have to print out a table consisting of two columns of numbers (not integers) and one column containing strings. I try to do the following, and no matter what I do, it gives me either cannot concatenate errors or just outputs incorrectly:

P=[6.5443  871.2282]
c=[6.7469 795.1066]
c1=[6.5472 870.5470 ]
c2=[6.4626 910.2019]

table=[P,c,c1,c2]';
words=['polyfit        ';'basis functions';'nlinfit        ';'L1             '];
words2=cellstr(words);
stuff={table,words}
fprintf('%6.4f \t %8f \t %s \n',stuff{:})

Output:

• 6.5443 6.746877 6.547151e+00
• 6.4626 871.228166 7.951066e+02
• 870.5470 910.201907 pbnLoal1lsi yin fsf i i tft u n c t i o

Unfortunately, It prints out "table" first for the first 8 times and does not do what I want. Please help

[pfb]

You have to admit that it is not very easy to guess what you want. You have a cell with a (8x1) numerical array and a (4x15) char array.

Then you ask matlab to print two numbers and one string out of it.

I can guess what you want, although I'm not sure why you want to do that in one single command. Why don't you use 4 fprintf commands?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Your code needed a few tweaks and a loop, but now it works:

P=[6.5443  871.2282];
c=[6.7469 795.1066];
c1=[6.5472 870.5470];
c2=[6.4626 910.2019];

table=[P;c;c1;c2];
words={'polyfit';'basis functions';'nlinfit';'L1'};
stuff={table,words};
for k1 = 1:size(words,1);
    fprintf('%.4f \t %.4f \t %s \n',stuff{1}(k1,:),char(stuff{2}(k1)))
end

produces:

6.5443    871.2282    polyfit 
6.7469    795.1066    basis functions 
6.5472    870.5470    nlinfit 
6.4626    910.2019    L1

The loop is usually necessary if you have mixed variable types.