in command window while displaying a cell, instead of showing arrays , shows how many characters there are

in command window while displaying a cell, instead of showing arrays , shows how many characters there are in that array. for example:

RESULT = 
    'r-t '                                 'had'
    ' KOR'                               [1x84 char]
    'hgfhf'                              [1x84 char]
    '1iopio'                             [1x80 char]

that shows how many characters there are in RESULT{2,2} and RESULT{3,2} and RESULT{4,2}

[Fangjun Jiang]

What is your question? For short strings, it shows the string itself. For long strings, you can imaging that the screen is not enough to show all of them, so it just tells you the length. I am not sure what is the threshold. You can certainly find out if you are interested.

[mohammad]

its very important for me, matlab displays characters (not numbers of them)

[Fangjun Jiang]

use celldisp(RESULT)

[mohammad]

so nice

really very nice

is it possible to display in this form(for example): RESULT{RESULT{11,1},RESULT{1,3}} instead of RESULT{11,3}

RESULT{11,1} is the name of a reference in first column

RESULT{1,3} is the name of a input in first row

[Fangjun Jiang]

I guess I don't really understand what you really want based on your question and all your comments.

To display a cell with long string, use disp(RESULT{3,2})

Or you can do: open('RESULT') will bring up the workspace editor.

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

Hi Mohammad, I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean here, so I apologize if I am not getting your intent, but perhaps you mean:

    C = {'had','KOR', 'hgfhf','1iopio'};
    cellfun(@length,C,'UniformOutput',false)
    cellfun(@class,C,'UniformOutput',false)

You can easily combine the length and class queries into a single cellfun() call.

Wayne

[mohammad]

Thanks for replying

for example

lab='dfgfdgdfgfdgfdgdfgdfg'

dfi='rtysghhjmdfhdfgyutrujy'

%splot is a function

RESULT{2,2}=sprintf('<a href="matlab: splot(%s,%s)">Not</a>',lab,dfi)

and in command window it must show RESULT{2,2}=Not in hyperlink

but it shows numbers of characters of RESULT{2,2} instead of 'Not' in hyperlink

[mohammad]

And this will happen while using more character in a cell array but how can it be fix?

Answer 2

[Wayne King]

Hi Mohammad, Hard for me to debug without your splot() because I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but do any of these suggestions help:

One thing you can do if you really want to store the result in a cell array is:

RESULT{2,2}=sprintf('<matlab: splot(%s,%s) Not>',lab,dfi);
RESULT{2,2}

% or
fprintf('<matlab: splot(%s,%s) Not>\n',lab,dfi);

Answer 3

[Walter Roberson]

This is not a bug; this is how MATLAB designed cell arrays to display on the screen. The same thing happens to numeric vectors and arrays: small ones are displayed directly and anything larger just displays the size and data type.

There is no option to modify this behavior.

Your best option is to write your own display routine that shows your data in the format you want.

[mohammad]

Walter please explain more about this:"Your best option is to write your own display routine that shows your data in the format you want."

[Oleg Komarov]

You can write a function which takes an input and displays it to the cmd widnow through fprintf.

[mohammad]

@Oleg this characters are not long in command window but these are so long in array of it self. for example for under array:

RESULT{2,2}=sprintf('<a href="matlab: splot(%s,%s)">Not</a>',lab,dfi);

there are more than 100 character. but in command window it must show only 'Not' that is very short.

i must use 'sprintf' that as so as you see i used it in array RESULT{2,2}