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Re: Trouble importing txt files

Florian — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:21:22 -0400

"us " <us@neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message
<fa3nlt$5pj$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Florian:
> <SNIP <textread> headache...
>
> > ??? Trouble reading number from file (row 1, field 1)
==>
> > ï»¿+0.0001042 -0.005223 \n
> > What's wrong with this files?...
>
> it seems that you have some extra chars at the end of
your
> text file, which may be due to the UNIX->DOS text mode
> incompatibility (CR, LF)...
> - do you copy/ftp your files from one OS to the other?
>
> just a thought
> us

Florian:

You're right. I made a copy from the measurement system to
my Laptop.

Do you know an solution for fixing such a file?

with best regards

Florian

Re: Trouble importing txt files

us — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:53:17 -0400

Florian:
<SNIP <textread> headache...

> ??? Trouble reading number from file (row 1, field 1) ==>
> ï»¿+0.0001042 -0.005223 \n
> What's wrong with this files?...

it seems that you have some extra chars at the end of your
text file, which may be due to the UNIX->DOS text mode
incompatibility (CR, LF)...
- do you copy/ftp your files from one OS to the other?

just a thought
us

Trouble importing txt files

Florian — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:38:55 -0400

Sometimes I've big troubles improting *.txt files.

Normally I use the uiimport to import a file and generate
the variables in the workspace I need.

I'm using an textfile with the structure

+0.0001042 -0.005223
+0.000125 -0.003095
+0.0001458 +0.007835
+0.0001667 -0.001064
+0.0001875 +0.02234
+0.0002083 +0.01422
+0.0002292 +0.004159
+0.00025 +0.01606
+0.0002708 +0.01219
+0.0002917 +0.007545
+0.0003125 +0.02186
+0.0003333 +0.02302
+0.0003542 +0.02002

but something is wrong with the format. If I use the
command A = TEXTREAD('01_2.txt')

I'm getting the response:
??? Trouble reading number from file (row 1, field 1) ==>
ï»¿+0.0001042 -0.005223 \n

What's wrong with this files? How could I modify this files
to get them imported into matlab?

Thank you

Florian