MATLAB email body include text and a table

Hello everyone,

I would like to include into an email body apart from text, also a table.

For example:

This is a test email

'Alberta' '2020-07-20 00:00:00.0' '2021-05-03 00:00:00.0' 'no action needed' 'no action needed'

'Aristarchos' '2017-09-14 00:00:00.0' '2020-12-12 00:00:00.0' 'no action needed' 'action needed'

'Balos' '2018-05-22 00:00:00.0' '2020-12-20 00:00:00.0' 'no action needed' 'no action needed'

I tried to modify the sendmail function with below code:

~isempty(charset)

msg.setText(body, charset, 'html');

else

msg.setText(body, '', 'html'); %not sure an empty charset will work

end

but the result was that I couln't add the text only the table but not with the required format but simple single rows as per below:

Alberta

Aristarchos

Balos

2020-07-20 00:00:00.0

2017-09-14 00:00:00.0

2018-05-22 00:00:00.0

2021-05-03 00:00:00.0

2020-12-12 00:00:00.0

2020-12-20 00:00:00.0

no action needed

no action needed

no action needed

no action needed

action needed

no action needed

How can I achieve the required format?

Thank you in advance!!

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Fragkiskos - from sendmail,

• The sendmail function does not support HTML-formatted messages. However, you can send HTML files as attachments.

So you might want to try converting your cell array into an HTML table and attach that to your message. Else, you could try converting each row of your cell array into a single string and include that in your message body (assuming that the text is no longer than 75 characters, I think that it all should be written to one line in the message).

[Fragkiskos Nikolakis]

Thank you!