sprintf to cell array

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Sven
Sven 2016-9-1
回答： Enoch23 2019-12-12
How can I make sprintf output a cell array, with a nice vectorized notation?
When I have:
C = {'a','b'}
Output = sprintf('Letter:%s\n',C{:})
It becomes a char of length 18. Simple workaround would be a loop, maybe scan with a separator, or a solution with cellfun and anonymous function should work as well.
But is there not a nice straightforward vectorized solution to this? My first guess would have been something like:
Output{:} = sprintf('Letter:%s\n',C{:})
Which does not work.
Thanx in advance Sven

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Stephen23
Stephen23 2016-9-1
编辑：Stephen23 2016-9-1
Read this blog, it shows lots of ways of doing this, and also introduces the fastest method of all (which is undocumented, so use it at your own risk):
http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/sprintfc-undocumented-helper-function
EDIT some alternative for strings. Thinking outside the box and is very fast:
strrep(['Letter:%s',10],'%s',{'a','b'})
Much slower:
strcat('Letter:',{'a','b'},char(10))
cellfun(@(s)sprintf('Letter:%s\n',s),{'a','b'},'UniformOutput',false);
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Sven
Sven 2016-9-1
This was the direction I was looking for especially sprintfc, thanx alot. Though I have not yet managed to get it running the way I'd liked.
Output = sprintfc('Letter:%s \n',C{:})
makes an error and
Output = sprintfc('Letter:%s \n',[C{:}])
only gives Letter:ab as a single element of the cell array, not the {Letter:a, Letter:b} I hoped for.
Guillaume
Guillaume 2016-9-1
If all the strings in your cell array are the same length, then
sprintfc('some string: %s', vertcat(C{:}))
would work. If not, unless you pad the shorter strings so all the lengths match, you cannot use sprintfc. My understanding of sprintfc (bearing in mind that there's absolutely no documentation) is that it is designed to transform numerical input (not cell arrays or char arrays input) into cell arrays of strings.

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Guillaume
Guillaume 2016-9-1
In my opinion, the cleanest way to do what you want would be:
C = {'a', 'b'};
output = cellfun(@(l) sprintf('Letter:%s', l), C, 'UniformOutput', false)
It may not be the fastest, but it clearly shows the intent and does not involve using undocumented functions that may change behaviour in the next release or just disappear altogether (or just reformat your hard drive given this one particular undocumented input, who knows?).
Not that if it's just single characters that you're passing to sprintf (as the 'Letter' string would suggest, then %c may be more appropriate. In that case, you also don't need to use a cell array:
C = 'ab';
output = arrayfun(@(l) sprintf('Letter@%c', l), C, 'UniformOutput', false)
Enoch23
Enoch23 2019-12-12
In the link shared by Stephen Cobeldick, there is an edit:
Addendum: Starting in R2016b, the main functionality of sprintfc (excluding sprintfc‘s 3rd [isImaginary] input flag, and its 2nd/3rd output args [errorMsg and isLeft]) is included in the new fully-documented/supported function compose.
The link: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/sprintfc-undocumented-helper-function
I thought I would post it here, as that is exactly what I was looking for. Maybe others looking for the same answer will come across this page.
Perry Orthey
Perry Orthey 2016-9-1
You could use strsplit:
C = {'a','b'};
Output = strsplit(sprintf('Letter:%s \n',C{:}));
Although this gives you one empty cell at the end.
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Sven
Sven 2016-9-1
Thanx for this, though it actually is kind of the answer I thought of with scan, had strsplit in my mind before.

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