faster way to read formatted ascii
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I have to read a large number of formatted text ascii files which are composed by 260 lines by 3662 columns by exploiting i/o level fgetl/fscanf. The 1th lines is the header, successive lines contain data. The columns 1:14 are time of measurements and other instrument specifications, while columns [15:3662,259] can be uploaded as a matrix.
I tryed by using fgetl() + strsplit(), but it seems to me that the output from strsplit is a cell array and it takes a lot of time to convert the huge numerical matrix into a double array.
What is the most efficient (in terms of time of reading) way to read these files?
thank you in advance
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Titus Edelhofer
on 25 Mar 2015
Hi,
as an alternative to textscan, you can continue using the importer as you do but instead of hitting the import data click on the triangle to get to the menu below that offers "Generate function". This should do most of the work for you and you can use the generated function to read your files in a loop ...
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