Multiple lines with fprintf

Hello, so I have a simple question, how do I make multiple lines with fprintf and not mess up the output? I tried making this code into multpile lines using fprintf:

for n=1:num
    rowNum = rowNum + 1;
    row = finalExp(rowNum, :);
    scoreCheck1 = row(:, 3);
    scoreCheck2 = row(:, 4);
    if scoreCheck1 < scoreCheck2
        fprintf('%02.0f/%02.0f  %02.0f-%02.0f  L  %1.0f   %2.0f   %2.0f    %1.0f   %5.3f\n', ...
            row)
    else
        fprintf('%02.0f/%02.0f  %02.0f-%02.0f  W  %1.0f   %2.0f   %2.0f    %1.0f   %5.3f\n', ...
            row)
    end
end

but whenever I make the fprintf part a line down (between the %2.0f and the %1.0f) it messes up the output.

[Adam Danz]

How is the output messed up? We can't run your code due to missing variable values.

[Cole Rasmussen]

Sorry about that Adam Danz, here is the entire segment of code if you want to see it. I added the file too. Don't fix my code though, because this is homework and I don't want to cheat, only pay attention to the fprintf part that I mentioned in the question. Also the code is a function so I put it in two different scripts.

FILENAME = 'AU_SB_2020_08.txt';

% ***** INPUT *****
% open data file
[fid, msg] = fopen(FILENAME, 'r'); 
% does file exist?
if fid <= 0
    fprintf( 'File not available\n' )
else
    % file exist continue
    help legend
    [month, day, sc1, sc2, s1, s2, s3, s4] = textread(FILENAME, ...
        '%f%f%*s%*s%f%f%f%f%f%f');
    date = [month, day];
    scores = [sc1, sc2];
    stats = [s1, s2, s3, s4];
    
    reportGraph(date, scores, stats)
    fclose(fid);
end

Here is the function

function [] = reportGraph(date, scores, stats)
% User defined function to print the report and the plot 

month = date(:, 1);
day = date(:, 2);
s1 = stats(:, 1);
s2 = stats(:, 2);
s3 = stats(:, 3);
s4 = stats(:, 4);
sc1 = scores(:, 1);
sc2 = scores(:, 2);
batAve = (s3 ./ s1);
aveRound = round(batAve, 3);
final = [month, day, sc1, sc2, s1, s2, s3, s4, aveRound];
num = length(final);
rowNum = 0;
sc1Ave = mean(sc1);
sc2Ave = mean(sc2);
s1Ave = mean(s1);
s2Ave = mean(s2);
s3Ave = mean(s3);
s4Ave = mean(s4);
aveAve = mean(aveRound);
ave = [sc1Ave, sc2Ave, s1Ave, s2Ave, s3Ave, s4Ave, aveAve];

fprintf('2020 AU Softball Batting Stats as of 03/01\n')
fprintf('Date   Score W/L  AB Runs Hits HRuns  Ave\n')
for n=1:num
    rowNum = rowNum + 1;
    row = final(rowNum, :);
    scoreCheck1 = row(:, 3);
    scoreCheck2 = row(:, 4);
    if scoreCheck1 < scoreCheck2
        fprintf('%02.0f/%02.0f  %02.0f-%02.0f  L  %1.0f   %2.0f   %2.0f    %1.0f   %5.3f\n', ...
            row)
    else
        fprintf('%02.0f/%02.0f  %02.0f-%02.0f  W  %1.0f   %2.0f   %2.0f    %1.0f   %5.3f\n', ...
            row)
    end
end
fprintf('Ave: %04.1f-%04.1f  %4.1f  %3.1f  %3.1f  %3.1f  %5.3f\n', ave)
end

[dpb]

>>         fprintf('%02.0f/%02.0f  %02.0f-%02.0f  L  %1.0f   %2.0f   %2.0f    %1.0f   %5.3f\n', ...
            rand(9,1)*20)
16/18  03-18  L  13    2    6    11   19.150
>>         fprintf('%02.0f/%02.0f  %02.0f-%02.0f  W  %1.0f   %2.0f   %2.0f    %1.0f   %5.3f\n', ...
            rand(9,1)*30)
29/05  29-29  W  15   24    4    13   27.472
>> 

seems to work ok, presuming your variable row always has exactly nine (9) elements to match up to the number of fields in the format string.

[Adam Danz]

If month and day are integers, you can use %d instead of %f.

Otherwise, I don't see what's messed up. Could you described the expected output compared to the actual output?

[dpb]

num = length(final);

may be a place you've got problem...

length isn't what most think it is--

length(x) --> max(size(x))

so if the array of x is more rows than columns --> size(x,1) while if more columns than rows, then --> size(x,2)

So, you can get an unexpected result depending upon the size of your input array.

It appears you want nRows above, so use

num=size(final,1);

[Cole Rasmussen]

Thanks for all the feedback you guys, I think I've got it now.

[Adam Danz]

You may want to consider whether it's really necessary to print the help-info on the legend function every time you run the script.

[dpb]

NB: You can use the vectorized operations of MATLAB to good effect...

s1 = stats(:, 1);
s2 = stats(:, 2);
s3 = stats(:, 3);
s4 = stats(:, 4);
sc1 = scores(:, 1);
sc2 = scores(:, 2);
batAve = (s3 ./ s1);
aveRound = round(batAve, 3);
...
sc1Ave = mean(sc1);
sc2Ave = mean(sc2);
s1Ave = mean(s1);
s2Ave = mean(s2);
s3Ave = mean(s3);
s4Ave = mean(s4);
aveAve = mean(aveRound);
ave = [sc1Ave, sc2Ave, s1Ave, s2Ave, s3Ave, s4Ave, aveAve];
...

can be simply

batAve = round(stats(:,3)./stats(:,1), 3);
ave=[mean(scores) mean(stats) mean(batAve)];

As general coding principal, avoid creating additional variables that are named sequentially--use the array indices instead to reference specific columns/rows and the vectorized abilities in ML to do operations over arrays/matrices. It's the power and reason for there being MATrixLABoratory.