Thread Subject: Read a txt-file with dates?

Hello!
I'got a problem reading my .txt file which looks like this:

20070830 1840 3.79 2.87 271.40
20070830 1850 6.40 0.42 269.90
20070830 1900 6.56 0.51 269.90

I've tried textread('test.txt','%d%d%f%f%f',' ').

What do I have to change to make it work?

Does this help?

[yyyymmdd,hhmm,x1,x2,x3] = textread('test.txt','%d %d %f %f %f');

Cheers
Bob

Bob <rbemis@mathworks.com> wrote in message <46e1b4d8-033b-
46d2-8d20-c0757fc5992c@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>...
> Does this help?
>
> [yyyymmdd,hhmm,x1,x2,x3] = textread('test.txt','%d %d %f
%f %f');
>
> Cheers
> Bob

It still doesn't work, i get the following error:

??? Trouble reading integer from file (row 2, field 2)
==> .87 271.40\n

Error in ==> textread at 176
[varargout{1:nlhs}]=dataread('file',varargin{:});

Error in ==> importeradata at 2
[yyyymmdd,hhmm,x1,x2,x3] = textread('test.txt','%d %d %f %f
%f');

What does this mean and what should be corrected??

I got it to work now, thanks!

Is it possible to get the outcome as a matrix where the
colums are V=[year time x1 x2 x3]. Now I just get seperate
vectors. If I put the togheter as a matrix as defined above
a get the following:

V =

  1.0e+007 *

    2.0071 0.0002 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
    2.0071 0.0002 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
    2.0071 0.0002 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
    2.0071 0.0002 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000

You mean like this?

[x(:,1) x(:,2) x(:,3) x(:,4) x(:,5)] = textread('test.txt','%d %d %f
%f %f');

Cheers
Bob