Saving a uitable contents for any number of columns.

I have the following code to save the contents of a uitable but for a fixed number of columns. How can I make it generic so it will work with any number of columns?

inputdata=(get(handles.uitableDark,'Data'))

%inputdata=cell2mat(inputdata)

[name,path] = uiputfile('C:\DarkFPN.txt','Save file name');
file=fullfile(path,name)
%save(file,'inputdata','-ascii');

fid = fopen(file,'wt');
 if fid > 0
     [nrows,ncols] = size(inputdata);
     for row = 1:nrows
         inputdata{row,:}
         fprintf(fid,'%.0f %.2f %.2f %.2f %.2f\n',inputdata{row,:});
     end
     fclose(fid);
 end
Thanks
Jason

Answer 1

[Brandon Eidson]

Hey Jason, assuming your various-column-numbered files have a repeatable format, you can create the FORMAT string based on your number of columns like in the code below.

[nrows, ncols] = size(inputdata);
formatString = '%.0f';
for col = 2:ncols
    formatString = strcat(formatString, ' %.2f');
end
formatString = strcat(formatString, '\n');

Then you can pass "formatString" as an argument to the "fprintf" function.

[Jason]

Thanks Brandon, thats great