Read data file with strings and integers

4 views (last 30 days)
Andy
Andy on 20 Oct 2013
Commented: Andy on 21 Oct 2013
I have a .txt file i want to read. Each line has a character and then integers delimited by commas. I want to read the file so that i have an array which is number of fields by the number of lines in the file. Firstly i tried using load() but this doesn't deal with the characters. I have also tried textscan, specifying the format but that created a cell array which was 1 by number of fields. The file will look like this.
A,1,2
B,2,3
So in the example above i would like the file it to be stored in a 2x3 array for me to use the values.

Accepted Answer

dpb
dpb on 20 Oct 2013
With textscan use the 'collectoutput',true option to put the numeric values into one cell then convert to an array w/ cell2mat or just the {} nomenclature.
  1 Comment
Andy
Andy on 21 Oct 2013
Thank you dpb, everything seems to have been read in ok now.

Sign in to comment.

More Answers (0)

Categories

Find more on Data Import and Export in Help Center and File Exchange

Products

Community Treasure Hunt

Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!

Start Hunting!