Writing Strings to File in MATLAB

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The discussion focuses on writing strings to a .txt file in MATLAB. The initial attempt using the command save filename.txt writer resulted in unexpected characters instead of the intended string. The issue was resolved by using the file I/O functions fopen, fprintf, and fclose to correctly write the string to the file in text mode.

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Hey,

so i want to write a string to a .txt file and I tried by doing this:

save filename.txt writer

(where writer is the variable containing string)
...
But i get weird char. instead of the string.
Any ideas?
 
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I solved it with a

fid = fopen(path,'wt');
fprintf(fid,writer);
fclose(fid);


:)
 

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