how to use sprintf to create multiple strings in a cell array in matlab

To use sprintf to create multiple strings in a cell array in Matlab, you can first create a format string that includes placeholders for each of the strings you want to create. Then you can call sprintf with the format string and the arguments to fill in the placeholders, and use curly braces to create a cell array of the resulting strings.

Here is an example code snippet that demonstrates this approach:

main.m
% create a format string with three placeholders for strings
format_str = '%s, %s, %s';

% call sprintf with the format string and arguments
strs = sprintf(format_str, 'string1', 'string2', 'string3');

% split the resulting string into a cell array using curly braces
cell_array = {strs};

% display the cell array
disp(cell_array);
334 chars
12 lines

This should output:

main.m
    'string1, string2, string3'
32 chars
2 lines

Note that the output is a cell array with a single element that contains the concatenated strings. If you want to create a cell array with separate elements for each string, you can modify the code to use multiple format strings and sprintf calls, or use the strsplit function to split the concatenated string into separate elements based on a delimiter.