mixing fprintf and dlmwrite line position error?

[susanex2texas]

Hello, everyone! Just a quick question. Here is some code:

fprintf(fid, '# BEGIN OUTPUT r (submodular) matrix\n');
dlmwrite('bdc', r, '-append', 'delimiter', '\t');
fprintf(fid, '# END OUTPUT r matrix\n');

fprintf(fid, '# BEGIN OUTPUT mother matrix\n');
dlmwrite('bdc', mother, '-append', 'delimiter', '\t');
fprintf(fid, '# END OUTPUT mother matrix\n');

Unfortuneatly, this code prints out:

# BEGIN OUTPUT r (submodular) matrix
# END OUTPUT r matrix
# BEGIN OUTPUT mother matrix
# END OUTPUT mother matrix
2
.... (data of r matrix and then mother matrix)

I'm not sure what is happening here... any ideas? dlmwrite doesn't lock until it finishes? dlmwrite does not transfer the file position information to the file handle?

Any ideas? This is just curious! Thank you!

Susan

 

[SomptingGuy]

It smells like Matlab has a cached file pointer for fprintf() and is reopening the file for each dlmwrite(), so the outputs aren't necessarily sequenced correctly (multiple file pointers). You may want to try closing the file before dlmwrite() so it flushes and then reopening it after.

You may find an answer in here somewhere. TMW's "solution" pages are generally very good - I always learn something new from them.

http://www.mathworks.com/support/pr...8S&subcategory=1-15ESR&parentcategory=1-15EQZ

- Steve