Display a cell in an fprintf?

I'm using an array from an Excel spreadsheet, and am trying to display a 1x1 cell output. However, fprintf doesn't support cell array arguments. When I use it, I get the message,

"Error using fprintf

Function is not defined for 'cell' inputs."

Is there another function I could use to display the cell? Or would I need to convert it to another form before I can use it?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You can use celldisp to display a cell, but the result is somewhat verbose, not a nice format.

What you would normally do with a cell and fprintf() is dereference the cell into its contents. Watch out that if you have fewer % format items than entries in the matrix that the format will be repeated as many times as required to output all of the items.

C = {[1], [2 3]}

C = 1×2 cell array
    {[1]}    {[2 3]}

fprintf('%d,', C{1}); fprintf('\n')

1,

fprintf('%d,', C{2}); fprintf('\n')

2,3,