How to open a file in MATLAB, which has comma as decimal separator.

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How to open a file (.txt or.dat), which has comma as decimal separator. My file has two columns (the first column is using comma as decimal separator). The two columns of the file are separated by space. My file looks like this:
1,94534 228
1,94534 231
1,97364 228
1,97364 231
2,00235 228
2,00235 231
2,00235 234
2,03148 228
2,03148 231
2,03148 234
2,06103 231
2,06103 234
2,09101 228
2,09101 231

Accepted Answer

Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 15 Oct 2013
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 15 Oct 2013
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fid=fopen('file.txt')
s=textscan(fid,'%s %s')
fclose(fid)
v1=str2double(strrep(s{1},',','.'))
v2=str2double(s{2})

More Answers (1)

Jan
Jan on 16 Oct 2013
S = fileread('file.txt');
S = strrep(S, ',', '.');
D = sscanf(S, '%g', [2, inf]);

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