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(Edited) We have a string and want it to be repeated, say 5 times, namely from

  str = '%s ';

to

'%s %s %s %s %s '

Question 1: How to specify in the the format argument in textscan() function, to create a new line every 5 strings? I'm looking for something like [repmat('%s', 1, 5) '%*[^\n]'] (this doesn't work).

Question 2: the [data] = textscan(fid, [repmat('%s', 1, 5) '%*[^\n]'], 'Delimiter',{','},'headerLines', 1) currently gives me a 1xn cell - how to convert this into a mxn matrix?;

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Use repmat to repeat copies of an array. Pass 1 row and n columns to represent it as an array.

>>  str = '%s ';
>> repmat(str, 1, 5)

ans =

%s %s %s %s %s
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  • I tried `repmat(str, 1, 5)` - however it doesn't wrap every 5 strings, please see my edited question. Thank you – fika_fika May 24 '17 at 20:26