How to write a file with strings and numbers

I would like to write an output file with all the information of variables and strings of my input files and values.

For example:

FILENAME = 'ASDF.txt'
XVALUE = 123
YVALUE = 123

Reading in forums, I was able to create a matrix with strings and numbers, which is not quite what I would like...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10077436/matlab-write-strings-and-numbers-of-variables-in-files

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

[Jan]

It is not clear yet, how your input data look like. Is e.g. "XVALUE" stored as a string or should this be taken dynamically from the name of the variable?

Answer 1

[dpb]

If the names are known and fixed, it's simple enough to just write them literally. If, otoh, it's more general than that you can encapsulate the write in a function inside of which you can use

inputname()

to retrieve the variable names of the calling argument(s) as strings that can then be written to the file.

doc inputname % for more details

Or, alternatively, use named structure fields where the names are dynamically created and hence known.

[Samuel]

Thanks for the help. The part I am having trouble with is writing these string and values to a *.txt file, which consists of both strings and numbers.

I am working on writing the strings/values using 'fid' and 'fprintf'...

[dpb]

Post a short sample piece of code/data where you're having trouble, specifically...also expound on your initial request--is that a fixed format for the file or are the strings to be written contained in variables and if so, what type--cells or character strings, etc., etc., etc., ... or are you actually trying to get variable names from workspace, what????

We only know what you tell us...