replace a string by a cell array in a text file

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H R
H R on 3 Jan 2016
Commented: H R on 4 Jan 2016
Hi, I have a text file 'TEXT.txt' with the following format
DATA
[$1]
/
I would like to use strrep('TEXT.txt', '[$1]', A) in such a way to replace [$1] by cell array A. For instance suppose I have a 2x1 cell array A where
A{1}
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48
49 50 51 52 53 54
55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66
67 68 69 70 71 72
73 74 75 76 77 78
79 80 81 82 83 84
85 86 87 88 89 90
91 92 93 94 95 96
and A{2} is
97 98 99 100
My TEXT.txt file after replacemnt should look like this:
DATA
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48
49 50 51 52 53 54
55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66
67 68 69 70 71 72
73 74 75 76 77 78
79 80 81 82 83 84
85 86 87 88 89 90
91 92 93 94 95 96
97 98 99 100
/
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H R
H R on 4 Jan 2016
I have a 1D number array with N numbers say A=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,...100]; I have a text file 'Test.txt'. Inside the text file I have a string [$1].
Data
[$1]
/
How to replace the string [$1] with the content of the array A in such a way that the array content is written one after each other in multiple lines where only 6 space-delimited numbers are printed in each line except the last line that could be shorter than 6 numbers (depending on the size of A). After this I would like to save the file with other name say 'Test1.txt' with the following contents:
Data
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18
...
/

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Answers (2)

Jan
Jan on 3 Jan 2016
Edited: Jan on 3 Jan 2016
What is the class of the contents of A{1}? Is it a string or a double matrix?
If it is a string:
FileStr = fileread(FileName);
FileStr = strrep(FileStr, '[$1]', A{1});
fid = fopen(FileName, 'w');
if fid == -1, error('Cannot open file: %s', FileName); end
fwrite(fid, FileStr, 'char');
fclose(fid);
If A{1} contains a double array, convert it to a string at first:
S = size(A{1});
Fmt = [repmat('%g\t', 1, S(2) - 1), '%g\n'];
B = sprintf(Fmt, A{1}.');
The rest equals the above solution except for:
FileStr = strrep(FileStr, '[$1]', B);

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 4 Jan 2016
BothA = [ reshape(A{1}.', 1, []), A{2} ];
%print the data up to 6 up line
fprintf(fid, '%d %d %d %d %d %d\n', BothA);
if mod(length(BothA,6) ~= 0
%if there was not an even multiple of 6 then the final \n was not emitted
fprintf(fid, '\n');
end

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