MATLAB: Display array values side by side

MATLAB

I have two arrays 'real' and 'imag' and this needs to be copied to a text file side by side. I tried the below as per Displaying data side by side
real = 1:5;
imag = 6:10;
    fileID = fopen('data.txt','w');
    fprintf(fileID,'%8d\t %8d\n',[real, imag]');
    fclose(fileID);
This doesn't seem to work as it displays:
         1          2
         3          4
         5          6
         7          8
         9         10
Expected output:
         1          6
         2          7
         3          8
         4          9
         5         10

Best Answer

Force ‘real’ and ‘imag’ to become column vectors first:
fprintf(fileID,'%8d\t %8d\n',[real(:), imag(:)]')
or vertically concatenate them:
fprintf(fileID,'%8d\t %8d\n',[real; imag])
Both will produce your desired result.
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