Matlab function for reading formatted data.
textscan is a Matlab function for reading formatted data from text file or string.
For more details, see the Matlab's official doc.
Questions tagged [textscan]
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how can I read multiple text files in matlab?
if possible please let me know that how I can read different text files in Matlab .
considering that there is 33 txt files that every one should process.
it is my code which has error. :(
textFilename = cell(1,33);
id = cell(1,33);
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Textscan until end of line
I'm trying to textscan a file and read a single line until the end of it, undependently of the number of elements in that line.
My file is a .txt file formatted like this…
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Store words after specific expressions in text file using matlab
I have many text files containing data like this:
{'photo': {'people': {'haspeople': 0}, 'dateuploaded': '1264588417', 'originalformat': 'jpg', 'tags': {'tag': [{'machine_tag': 0, 'author': '14988396@N00', 'text': 'bokehlicious', 'raw':…
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Speed increase for textscan use
I did a program that takes a .csv file and stacks the 3rd column of each files in the appropriate 3rd dimension of a 512x512xNumberOfFiles cell array. The code goes like this :
[filenames,filepath] = uigetfile('*.csv','Opening the data…
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How to skip lines in a txt file using Matlab?
I am working on a GUI program that involves uploading a txt file. The first 80 lines of the file contains information I do not need, it is a mix of numeric and text data. For example here is a few lines of the data I do not want to…
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Not a string after textscan in Matlab
I am reading a string of the form: Text1_Text2_Text3_Text4. I do a textscan with the delimiter "_":
myString = textscan('Text1_Text2_Text3_Text4', '%s', 'delimiter','_');
output:
'Text1'
'Text2'
'Text3'
'Text4'
This is a char array. To transform it…
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textscan delimiter = "abc" does not work
I am trying to read a text file that has textual data and separated by delimiter say 'abc' as consecutive characters separating the string that I want to read.
Ex: say text.txt file, as follows:
John abc Mike abc Micheal
Sandra abc Sarah abc…
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textscan Unexpected Empty Cell with valid Format string
I am reading a tab-delimited file. Five representative lines of this file are:
Date Time Property Path 1 Path 2 Path 3 Path 4 Path 5 Path 6 Path 7 Path 8
Lev 1 Lev 1 Lev 1 Lev 1 Lev 1 Lev 1 Lev 1 Lev 1
1/1 …
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Assign structs with conditional statements
I would like to assign input data to 2 different structs, depending on a condition (Matlab). What is the best way to do this?
FILE points.dat
% Point ID X Y CODE
Station1 2.2 4.5 0
Station2 5.1 6.7 0
Station3 7.3 3.2 …
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Assign file data to struct
I am trying to create a struct called "points" with members ID, X coordinate, & Y coordinate. What is the simplest way to scan in the data from a file? I'm using textscan, but it's not doing what I want so far.
FILE points.dat
StationA 2.2 …
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textscan() reading result is a nested cell array?
I have a data file containing 100 lines with the following format
0,device1,3
1,device2,33
2,device3,3
3,device4,34
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99,device100,36
Now I wish to read them into a 100x3 cell array in MATLAB. I did the following:
allData = textscan(fID,'%s %s…
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why textscan only read one line
I am trying to read a csv file use textscan. The fields are seperated with ',' . I used the following code, but it only read in one line of data into the matrix W.
I also tried dlmread(), it got the number of fields wrong.
The file is contructed…
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How can I search a text file for specific words using matlab?
I need to write a program in matlab that searches for key words in a text file and then reads in what comes after those words, then continue searching.i tried to use fscanf or textscan but i must be missing something
I have a text file and the…
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How to read only numerical data into Matlab and ignore any text
I am trying to read data into Matlab consisting of rows of numbers and texts however I only want to read the numerical values and skip the text (whenever it occurs). I have been using textscan but to read the numbers in but when it reaches a column…
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Matlab: Import .csv-file via textscan
Im working on a program which shall manipulate .csv files from an Experiment. Therefore i want to use the command textscan, which sounds really suitable for my Problem. But I got problems with the implementation of the code. My code Looks like…
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