fprintf conversion character use \c or \s?

I am trying to create a table, without using the table function, that lists the values from two lists. Because this is a function I didn't hard code the for loop, so it should work for any amount of values. The results list is numbers that successfully prints to the screen. The countries list is as follows:

'AUS'

'AUT'

'BLR'

'CAN'

'CHN'

'CRO'

'CZE'

etc

However the function only prints the first character of each country with this output:

Countries Gold Silver Bronze Total

A 2 1 0 3

A 4 6 6 16

B 1 1 1 3

C 14 7 5 26

C 5 2 4 11

C 0 2 1 3

C 2 0 4 6

etc

function print_country_results(countries,results)

fprintf ('Countries Gold Silver Bronze Total\n') 
for n = 0:length(results)
fprintf (' %c           %2.0f    %2.0f     %2.0f      %2.0f\n',[countries(n+1,1); results(n+1,1); results(n+1,2); results(n+1,3); results(n+1,4)]) 
if n == length(results)
    break
end   

end
end 

I know that %s will return a string array, instead of using %c for a single character, but when I use %s I receive the error message that

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Putting character arrays and numeric variable types together in a matrix is not appropriate.

Try this instead:

countries = ['AUS'
             'AUT'
             'BLR'
             'CAN'
             'CHN'
             'CRO'
             'CZE'];
 
results = [ 2     1      0       3
            4     6      6      16
            1     1      1       3
           14     7      5      26
            5     2      4      11
            0     2      1       3
            2     0      4       6];
        
fprintf ('Countries Gold Silver Bronze Total\n')
for n = 0:length(results)-1
    fprintf (' %s           %2.0f    %2.0f     %2.0f      %2.0f\n',countries(n+1,:), results(n+1,1), results(n+1,2), results(n+1,3), results(n+1,4))
    if n == length(results)
        break
    end
end

You might be able to do that with string arrays (I didn’t test that), although certainly not with character arrays.