How to store values in workspace without using fprintf? but syntax should be quite similar to that of fprintf

a=[200 250 300];
b={};
% now I want this b should store values related to <200, 200-250, 250-300, >300, etc.
% like b should contain values which are <200, between 200 to 250 and so on
b{1,1}=[<200]
b{1,2}=[200-250]

[Walter Roberson]

Are you looking for the cells in b to store the elements extracted from a? Or are you looking for b to have strings like '<200' ?

Can sprintf() be used if fprintf() is not to be permitted?

[KANCHAN PATIL]

Hello Walter, Thanks for the suggestion and I am looking for the cells in b to store the elements extracted from a. But I can't use any 'printf command. Can you help me with it?

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

Consider using the discretize function to determine the bin that contains each element in a.

[KANCHAN PATIL]

Hello Steven, Thanks. Please can you explain it?

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

[~, ~,  bin] = histcounts(a, [-inf, 200, 250, 300, inf]) 

for k = 1:4
  b{k} = a(bin==j) ;
end

no reason to get anywhere close to fprintf.