importdata difference between Win xp and Win 7

Hi,

I have files looking like this:

*Start file***

 ,
  0  .5987549 
  10  .5987549 
  20  .5984497 
  30  .5981445 
  40  .5978394 
  50  .5978394 
  60  .5975342 
  70  .597229 
  80  .597229 
  90  .5969238 
***END FILE***

I know they are messy, but it's the way my program exports them, nothing I can do about it. Note that they start with a \n and is followed by a comma on the subsequent row. Also note that there are two spaces separating the data columns. On my old computer running Windows XP, I am able to simply use importdata() som import the date from these files. In Windows 7, the command imports no data. I have not been able to figure out what the difference is, can anyone help?

[Henrik]

Ok, it seems like the problem is not version of windows, but rather version of Matlab. The import works in 2010a but not in 2012a or 2012b. Why would a newer version have less functionality?

Answer 1

[Jan]

Newer versions of Matlab tend to be smarter. And the smart import of a malformed file will more likely crash.

Fortunately the format looks odd, but easy:

function Data = MyImportFcn(FileName)
FID = fopen(FileName, 'r');
if FID == -1
  error('Tool:MyImportFcn:MissingFile', ...
        'Cannot open file: %s', FileName);
end
fgetl(fid);
fgetl(fid);
Data = fscanf(FID, '%g ', Inf);
Data = transpose(reshape(Data, 2, []));
fclose(FID);