Thread Subject: efficient way to read this text file

Hi,

I would like to read data from a text file that has the
following content:

TITLE="H:, "U m/s", "V m/s", "CHC", ZONE T="83.941605 um/p,
2.014599, 83.270073, 9900000256.000000, 9900000256.000000, -1
2.686131, 83.270073, 9900000256.000000, 9900000256.000000, -1
3.357664, 83.270073, 9900000256.000000, 9900000256.000000, -1
4.029197, 83.270073, 9900000256.000000, 9900000256.000000, -1
75.883209, 44.992699, 0.026952, 0.018204, 4


Is there an efficient way to read just the numbers after the
first line into a [m,n] matrix.

Regards,
Varun

Varun:
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> Is there an efficient way to read just the numbers after
the first line into a [m,n] matrix...

one of the many solutions

% assume your data is in <foo.txt>
     fnam='foo.txt';
     m=dlmread(fnam,',',1,0);

thank you, that worked

varun

"us " <us@neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message
<f9mkll$3hr$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Varun:
> <SNIP importing formatted text evergreen...
>
> > Is there an efficient way to read just the numbers after
> the first line into a [m,n] matrix...
>
> one of the many solutions
>
> % assume your data is in <foo.txt>
> fnam='foo.txt';
> m=dlmread(fnam,',',1,0);

Dear All,
I have problem in reading file containing string or
character in my file. The following are the data example:

11:48:00 -> 11:49:00 0.00 -> 0.25 mm n= 0.0000000 /m3mm
11:48:00 -> 11:49:00 0.25 -> 0.50 mm n= 0.0000000 /m3mm
11:48:00 -> 11:49:00 0.50 -> 0.75 mm n= 0.0000000 /m3mm
11:48:00 -> 11:49:00 0.75 -> 1.00 mm n= 1.8491934 /m3mm
rainrate =0.001686 mm/hr
11:49:00 -> 11:50:00 0.00 -> 0.25 mm n= 0.0000000 /m3mm
11:49:00 -> 11:50:00 0.25 -> 0.50 mm n= 0.0000000 /m3mm
11:49:00 -> 11:50:00 0.50 -> 0.75 mm n= 2.6686186 /m3mm
11:49:00 -> 11:50:00 0.75 -> 1.00 mm n= 0.0000000 /m3mm
rainrate =0.000455 mm/hr
11:50:00 -> 11:51:00 0.00 -> 0.25 mm n= 0.0000000 /m3mm
11:50:00 -> 11:51:00 0.25 -> 0.50 mm n= 0.0000000 /m3mm
11:50:00 -> 11:51:00 0.50 -> 0.75 mm n= 2.3139154 /m3mm
11:50:00 -> 11:51:00 0.75 -> 1.00 mm n= 3.5420286 /m3mm
rainrate =0.004181 mm/hr

Desired new file structure:
11:48:00 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 1.8491934 0.001686
11:49:00 0.0000000 0.0000000 2.6686186 0.0000000 0.000455
11:50:00 0.0000000 0.0000000 2.3139154 3.5420286 0.004181

I really need your help. I want to pick the value of last
coulumn (value of after n), rainrate value and time only and
putting them in new file with structure as desired new file.

That's my question, thanks very much for your best help

Best regards;
Edward

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:02:02 -0500, edward kabanyas <djuky_hmi@yahoo.com=
> =

wrote:
> Dear All,
> I have problem in reading file containing string or
> character in my file. The following are the data example:
>
> 11:48:00 -> 11:49:00 0.00 -> 0.25 mm n=3D 0.0000000 /m3mm
> 11:48:00 -> 11:49:00 0.25 -> 0.50 mm n=3D 0.0000000 /m3mm
> 11:48:00 -> 11:49:00 0.50 -> 0.75 mm n=3D 0.0000000 /m3mm
> 11:48:00 -> 11:49:00 0.75 -> 1.00 mm n=3D 1.8491934 /m3mm
> rainrate =3D0.001686 mm/hr
> 11:49:00 -> 11:50:00 0.00 -> 0.25 mm n=3D 0.0000000 /m3mm
> 11:49:00 -> 11:50:00 0.25 -> 0.50 mm n=3D 0.0000000 /m3mm
> 11:49:00 -> 11:50:00 0.50 -> 0.75 mm n=3D 2.6686186 /m3mm
> 11:49:00 -> 11:50:00 0.75 -> 1.00 mm n=3D 0.0000000 /m3mm
> rainrate =3D0.000455 mm/hr
> 11:50:00 -> 11:51:00 0.00 -> 0.25 mm n=3D 0.0000000 /m3mm
> 11:50:00 -> 11:51:00 0.25 -> 0.50 mm n=3D 0.0000000 /m3mm
> 11:50:00 -> 11:51:00 0.50 -> 0.75 mm n=3D 2.3139154 /m3mm
> 11:50:00 -> 11:51:00 0.75 -> 1.00 mm n=3D 3.5420286 /m3mm
> rainrate =3D0.004181 mm/hr
>
> Desired new file structure:
> 11:48:00 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 1.8491934 0.001686
> 11:49:00 0.0000000 0.0000000 2.6686186 0.0000000 0.000455
> 11:50:00 0.0000000 0.0000000 2.3139154 3.5420286 0.004181
>
> I really need your help. I want to pick the value of last
> coulumn (value of after n), rainrate value and time only and
> putting them in new file with structure as desired new file.
>
> That's my question, thanks very much for your best help
>
> Best regards;
> Edward
>

If you didn't have two "kinds" of lines, textscan would be helpful.

But it sounds to me like you'll have to "manually" open the file,
read it line by line, and find the last number in each line, e.g.
use the following functions:

fopen to open the file
fgetl to read a line
sscanf or other string functions to parse the line
fclose to close the file

--Arthur