write cell array of tables to a .txt file

I'm new to matlab so i'm sorry if my question might sound easy.

I have a cell array in which each cell contains a table of different size(all tables have 2 columns but have different number of rows). I want to save the first column of every table in this cell (which is a string but without the quotation mark) in a text file in a way that each ROW of this file is a column of my tables seperated with tab. I've tried writecell and writetable and fprintf; but couldn't get it done. how can I do this?

here is how my cell looks like:

and here is one of the tables:

I want the output to be like this and so on for every table in a single text file:

YAL017W YAL028W YBL049W ...

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[David Hill]

out=[]
for k=1:length(yourCell)
  out=[out,strjoin(yourCell{k}.Var1,'\t')];
end

[ITgirl]

thank you sir; but the output has only one line. I want each column of each table in different rows. like:

column 1 of first table

column 1 of second table

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and also is there a way to get rid of '' of string in the output?

[David Hill]

for k=1:length(yourCell)
  out{k}=strjoin(yourCell{k}.Var1,'\t');
  fprintf('%s\n',out{k});
end

[ITgirl]

thanks David. It does the trick but the output itself is a cell and when I use writecell() to save it in a .txt file there is only one line. Also manually tried copy and paste to a notepad but it turned out messy and not in a correct way. I would appreciate if you could help on this matter too. The .txt file is important to me.

[David Hill]

writecell(out,'out.txt');%this should work just fine

[ITgirl]

I used the same code writecell(). in matlab editor there's only one line in out.txt. but in notepad it looks like this which is wrong because I have 30 tables hense need 30 lines:

[David Hill]

You verified your out is a 1x30 cell array? Try reading the cell that you wrote.

out=readcell('out.txt');%should get the same thing you saved.

[ITgirl]

Yes it's a 1*30 cell. This writes cell in one line too.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for your time and help.

This solved my problem and has 30 lines:

fileID = fopen('out.txt','wt');
fprintf(fileID,'%s\n',out{:});
fclose(fileID)