fprintf and line break

Hi,

I'm trying to write an array into a text file using fprintf. It's working fine on my Mac Matlab Version 2015b. However, on my work PC with a 2011 version, it is not breaking the line, but writing everything into one single line. Since I only have those two setups, it's hard for me to figure out if it is a Mac/PC or a version issue. Also, maybe I'm missing something in the syntax?

    filetimenormal=fullfile(savepath,'file.txt');
    ftnormal=fopen(filetimenormal, 'w');
    header={'year','mm', 'dd', 'hh', 'min', 'sec', 'file', 'type'};
    fprintf(ftnormal,'%s \t %s \t %s \t %s \t %s \t %s \t %s \t %s \n',header{1,:});

    [nrows,ncols] = size(newtimearray);
    for row = 1:nrows
        fprintf(ftnormal,'%s \t %s \t %s \t %s \t %s \t %s \t %s \t %s \n' ,newtimearray{row,:});
    end

Thank you!

[Geoff Hayes]

Anke - is this true for the header too? Is it on the same line as the data? Put a breakpoint at the second fprintf and check to see whether the newtimearray{row,:} data types make sense for the output format string.

[Anke Kügler]

Geoff, yes, even the header is on the same like as the rest of the lines

[Stephen23]

@Anke Kügler : the solution is to read the fopen documentation, and add the t option to the permissions string. Walter Roberson's answer is the correct solution.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

For MS Windows, use

      ftnormal=fopen(filetimenormal, 'wt');

instead of

      ftnormal=fopen(filetimenormal, 'w');

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Depending on the program (notepad, wordpad, MSWord, etc.) the new lines are interpreted differently. If \n is not working, try \n\r or \r\n. One of those should work.