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From:  muhdzubair@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: How to read a particular line
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:23:33 -0000
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On Jul 7, 7:16 pm, "per isakson" <p...@kth2.se> wrote:
> muhdzubair wrote:
>
> > On Jul 7, 6:42 pm, "per isakson" <p...@kth2.se> wrote:
> >> muhdzubair wrote:
>
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I want to read the 8th column from the file below:
>
> >> > 52.0 277 177 133 179 105 81 612999 320000
> >> > 147379
> >> > 154795 1238
> >> > 53.0 277 177 133 180 105 81 601314 317429
> >> > 146368
> >> > 153743 1232
> >> > 54.0 276 177 132 181 105 81 589799 314805
> >> > 145321
> >> > 152652 1227
> >> > 55.0 276 177 131 181 105 81 578469 312132
> >> > 144237
> >> > 151521 1221
>
> >> > I tried to use 'textscan' but couldnt get the result..can
> > anyone
> >> > help
> >> > me to read the 8th column and sore in a variable for this
> >> > particular
> >> > case..
> >> > Thanks
>
> >> textscan( fid, '%*f%*f%*f%*f%*f%*f%*f%f%*f%*f%*f', ... )
>
> >> should do it / per- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > I used textscan :
> > c=textscan(fid,'%*f %*f %*f %*f %*f %*f %*f %f');
>
> > but the output is:
> > c=
> > [18x1 double]
>
> > can i get the entire column as i have to get sum of all the four
> > numbers in the said column..
>
> How many line are there in the file? / per- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

At the moment there are 12 columns and 9 rows in the file...