Thread Subject: Using textscan to read in data

Hi, I have data in a text file I'd like to read using textscan. The data is arranged as follows:

 1, 1, 2, 566, 619, 8, 5, 646, 647, 21445, 21444, 21443, 21442, 21446, 21447, 21448,
    21449, 21451, 21450, 21452, 21453
 2, 619, 566, 567, 618, 647, 646, 645, 648, 21443, 21456, 21455, 21454, 21448, 21457, 21458,
    21459, 21453, 21452, 21460, 21461
 3, 618, 567, 568, 617, 648, 645, 644, 649, 21455, 21464, 21463, 21462, 21458, 21465, 21466,
    21467, 21461, 21460, 21468, 21469
 4, 617, 568, 569, 616, 649, 644, 643, 650, 21463, 21472, 21471, 21470, 21466, 21473, 21474,
    21475, 21469, 21468, 21476, 21477
 5, 616, 569, 570, 615, 650, 643, 642, 651, 21471, 21480, 21479, 21478, 21474, 21481, 21482,
    21483, 21477, 21476, 21484, 21485

I want to read this as 21 columns. In my text file there is one carriage return after the first 16 integers in a row, then 5 more integers in another row. So each actual row contains 21 integer entries. In what I've pasted there are 5 rows of data. I'm having a problem reading this in. I've been trying:

ELEMENTS=textscan(fid,'%d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, %d, \n %d, %d, %d, %d, %d\n');

but that hasn't been working. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Felipe

Felipe Sediles:
<SNIP how to read a formatted text file - evergreen

one of the many solutions

% the engine
     nc=21; % <- # cols
     fnam='num21.txt'; % <- your file name!
     n=textread(fnam,'%d','delimiter',',');
     m=reshape(n.',nc,[]).';
% the result
     type(fnam);
     m

us

"us " <us@neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message <f86a9c$jld$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Felipe Sediles:
> <SNIP how to read a formatted text file - evergreen
>
> one of the many solutions
>
> % the engine
> nc=21; % <- # cols
> fnam='num21.txt'; % <- your file name!
> n=textread(fnam,'%d','delimiter',',');
> m=reshape(n.',nc,[]).';
> % the result
> type(fnam);
> m
>
> us
>
Thank you that worked!