Thread Subject: text scan

Hello, I have a single column, comma-delimited text file with about 8000 entries such as '800G', '800', '720', '720G' etc. What is the best way to (1) load this csv file into matlab and (2) in a loop, identify all entries with the number, say, '800' (ignoring the trailing letter in some cases)? thanks so much in advance for your help!

- justabovemaine

[data] = textread('yourfile.csv','%s'); %data will be a cell array of string
data_clean = regexprep(d,'[a-zA-Z]',''); %replaces any alphabetic character with empty string.




"justabovemaine maine" <justabovemaine@gmail.com> wrote in message <gu47r6$s1o$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hello, I have a single column, comma-delimited text file with about 8000 entries such as '800G', '800', '720', '720G' etc. What is the best way to (1) load this csv file into matlab and (2) in a loop, identify all entries with the number, say, '800' (ignoring the trailing letter in some cases)? thanks so much in advance for your help!
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> - justabovemaine