how to get fprintf to print words with numbers

How would I be able to use an fprintf statement to print words with corresponding numbers? I am working on a program to calculate the taxes in canada. My issue is creating an fprintf statement that will create a table showing each number in a single line with a province. There are two number variables so I want to make the statement display for example "The tax in Ontario is 20000$ and the difference is 4000$"

thanks in advance for any help

I've tried stuff like this with no luck

 fprintf('The tax in %s is %10.2f$ and the difference is %10.2f$\n',provarray{1:end},taxarray)

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

See http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/308089-printing-string-from-a-cell-array-and-double-array-with-fprintf#answer_239759

with additional explanation at http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/305744-how-do-i-print-a-txt-file-of-integers-and-floats#comment_395958

[William Colwell]

Thank you so much!!! This worked I have spent hours working out algorithms to solve this and was stumped thank you I was un aware of the num2cell function

[Walter Roberson]

taxarray = [ nltotal petotal nstotal ontotal mbtotal sktotal abtotal bctotal yttotal nutotal;
            nldiff pediff nsdiff ondiff mbdiff skdiff abdiff bcdiff ytdiff nudiff];  %notice the semi-colon

array = [ provarray; num2cell(taxarray) ];  %no transpose in this case
fprintf('The tax in %2s is %10.4g and the difference is %10.4g\n', array{:});

By the way, what happened to New Brunswick ?

[William Colwell]

It's already calculated in another fprintf statement. The question is for a person who lives in New-Brunswick to calculate their taxes already and then find the difference between the taxes they would pay in NB compared to every other province.

[Walter Roberson]

Ah, that makes sense.

Did this version of the fprintf() work for you?

[William Colwell]

Yep it worked like a charm originally there was an error but that was on me I forgot a term in one array with caused a dimension error but all worked great you're a life saver! :) the only difference between what you posted and what I did was instead of %10.4g I used %10.4f because the g was giving me engineering notation. Ironically I'm in engineering and engineering notation is not allowed

Answer 2

[James Tursa]

E.g., assuming provarray is N elements and taxarray is Nx2:

m = max(cellfun(@numel,provarray));
for k=1:numel(provarray)
    fprintf(['The tax in %' num2str(m) 's is %10.2f$ and the difference is %10.2f$\n'],provarray{k},taxarray(k,:));
end

[William Colwell]

Would there be a way to achieve this without using a loop?

btw these are the current arrays i have

   taxarray = [nltotal petotal nstotal ontotal mbtotal sktotal abtotal bctotal
      yttotal nutotal nldiff pediff nsdiff ondiff mbdiff skdiff abdiff
      bcdiff ytdiff nudiff];
  provarray = {'NF','PE','NS','ON','MB','SK','AB','BC','YT','NU'};

where the total ones are total tax and diff are numbers