Displaying data side by side using fprintf

Two questions in one day, I must be pretty bad at this. Anyways after getting past my first problem I now have to display two arrays side by side like a table. Normally I'd just combine them and print them out at once or something but the different columns have to be displayed with different significant figures.

I've tried this:

fprintf('%.2f %.3f\n', velocity,distance)

but it turns out way wrong.

The two vectors are:

velocity

           170
           290
          -130
           -70
          -185
          -220
           200
           290
           270
           200
           300
           -30
           650
           150
           500
           920
           450
           500
           500
           960
           500
           850
           800
          1090

and distance

      0.0320
      0.0340
      0.2140
      0.2630
      0.2750
      0.2750
      0.4500
      0.5000
      0.5000
      0.6300
      0.8000
      0.9000
      0.9000
      0.9000
      0.9000
      1.0000
      1.1000
      1.1000
      1.4000
      1.7000
      2.0000
      2.0000
      2.0000
      2.0000

All I need is a way to get them next to each other. I can figure out the significant figures and spacing myself.

Thanks alot.

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

One way:

fprintf('%8.2f %8.3f\n', [velocity,distance]')

[Ian Barker]

Ah that apostrophe at the end seems to do the trick. What does that even do exactly?

Anyways thanks a lot for your help.

[the cyclist]

It's taking the transpose of the matrix.

doc transpose

for details.

[Shahbaz BHATI]

is there any way i can add serial numbers to the same output?

[the cyclist]

If your serial number is purely numeric, then you can just add another column:

velocity = [2.011;3.012;4.013];
distance = [2.001;3.002;4.003];
sn = [487969816; 487969876; 487969873];

sprintf('%10d %8.2f %8.3f\n', [sn,velocity,distance]')

If not (e.g. if your serial number is something like SN4876), then you'll need a different approach. I suggest you open a new question with a bit more detail and a small sample of what your input data look like. (If you link that new question here, I'll try to look for it.)