
Finally, 'Delimiter',',' states that all commas should be interpreted as the delimiter between each column. When the field width operator is used with single characters ( c ), textscan also reads delimiter, white-space, and end-of-line characters. %f means "interpret as doubles (floats)". The asterisk in %*s means "ignore this column".
To do this, call: data = textscan(fid,'%*s %s %s %f %f %f','Delimiter',',')
Ignore string string double double double For example, I would like to read the following data using. Data, , 15:41:52 801, 800.000000, 1.5123, 0.0043 Lets say some numeric data is not delimited, buth we can delimit it based on their location. The default field delimiter is the white-space character, (i.e., any character that returns true from a call to the isspace function). To do so, get a file identifier of the text file with fopen: fid = fopen('path/to/myfile') Īssume for the data in this example, we want to ignore the first column "Data", read the date and time as strings, and read the rest of the columns as doubles, i.e. One may use textscan to read this quite fast.
Date and time strings to numeric array fastĪssume you have formatted data in a large text file or string, e.g. Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) Solvers. Fourier Transforms and Inverse Fourier Transforms Example 1 Code: chrstr '0.31 3.24 5.67 6.44 9.17' Scanstr textscan (chrstr,'f') celldisp (Scanstr) Output: Example 2 Code: filestr 'grades. Finally, 'Delimiter',',' states that all commas should be interpreted as the delimiter between each column. For example: a,142,5 aa,3,0 abb,5,0 ability,3,0 about,2,0 I want to read the file and put the words in one variable, the first numbers in another, and the second numbers in another but I am having trouble with textscan. to get '')ĮDIT Based no your comments, you want to do the conversion like this: % Read the data To do this, call: data textscan (fid,'s s s f f f','Delimiter',',') The asterisk in s means 'ignore this column'. txt file with rows consisting of three elements, a word and two numbers, separated by commas. If I output C, I get: Columns 1 through 6 So what I wanted the textscan to output was a 4 row cell array, the first row would have 6 cells representing the coordinates of the 6 regions for that specific row(in this case leaf tips). It would be easier to have it as a "regular" array (pardon me for not knowing the correct nomenclature, I just started working with matlab). However, C is a cell array and this makes it harder to handle the contents of the file in matlab. I have successfully imported a test file using the following: ftest = fopen('test.csv') Ĭ = textscan(ftest,'%f %s %f %f %f %f %f %f %s %s %f %f','Headerlines',1,'Delimiter',',')