How to get value from this type of table?

Hi. I want to create a code which can take extract a value of Cv coeffiecient from excel table given below, if user gives the value of Z and Soil Profile type as a string i.e Sa?

For now, i can omit Sf soil profile type.

Kind Regards,

Imran

[Cris LaPierre]

As you've probably excountered already, this is non-trivial. You likely have to manually adjust the options used in conjunction with your import function. Can you share one of your Excel tables? That would give us something to test our ideas with.

[Muhammad Imran]

Yes sure. I have attached my excel file.

And i asked the question beacuse my issue has not been resolved previously. If you can also help me with my previous query i will be thakful.

Regards,

[Cris LaPierre]

And the formatting and layout is exactly the same in every single file?

[Muhammad Imran]

Some has similar formatting and some are like one vs one relation. You give one value and extract the other value against it from excel table.

[Muhammad Imran]

And plus how can i recreate to make it easier to read? Can you give me an example with simpler matlab code.?

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

Unless you have a lot of these to read in, it's going to be quicker to either

1. recreate this table in a format that is easier to read in, or
2. create a script that defines variables for each value.

SA_Z075 = 0.06;
SB_Z075 = 0.08;
...
SE_Z4 = 0.96;

You could either run this script at the top of any other script that needs these values, or run it once and save the variables to a mat file, then load that mat file when you need them.

[Muhammad Imran]

Dear, I have a lot of tables like these and i have to add them to get values and do some calculations at the end. It will be easier to use tables i guess.

[Cris LaPierre]

The best way to try importing data is to use the Import Tool. This allows you to interactively adjust the import settings. When you have what you want, you can then generate code that you can then add to your own code.

I'm a little more comfortable coding things up myself, so I'd probably do something like this

filename = "Table 16-R.xlsx";
opts = detectImportOptions(filename,'ReadRowNames',true);
opts.VariableNames = ["Z0075", "Z015", "Z02", "Z03", "Z04"];

zTbl = readtable(filename,opts)

As a table with Soil Profile Type as the row name, I can then index the table use the Soil Profile Type and Seismic Zone Factor. Notice I am using curly braces to access the table value.

Z=zTbl{"SA","Z015"}

Here, the result is Z = 0.1200

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Try this. It works for all 5 cases, plus even works if the z is not one of the columns exactly.

fileName = fullfile(pwd, 'Table 16-R.xlsx');
[numbers, strings, raw] = xlsread(fileName)
lookUpTable = [0.075, .15, .2, .3, .4];

zInput = 0.075;
% Find the column that is closest to what the user input for Z:
[~, closestColumn] = min(abs(zInput - lookUpTable))
% Extract the SA for that column:
SA = numbers(1, closestColumn)

zInput = 0.15;
% Find the column that is closest to what the user input for Z:
[~, closestColumn] = min(abs(zInput - lookUpTable))
% Extract the SA for that column:
SA = numbers(1, closestColumn)

zInput = 0.2;
% Find the column that is closest to what the user input for Z:
[~, closestColumn] = min(abs(zInput - lookUpTable))
% Extract the SA for that column:
SA = numbers(1, closestColumn)

zInput = 0.3;
% Find the column that is closest to what the user input for Z:
[~, closestColumn] = min(abs(zInput - lookUpTable))
% Extract the SA for that column:
SA = numbers(1, closestColumn)

zInput = 0.4;
% Find the column that is closest to what the user input for Z:
[~, closestColumn] = min(abs(zInput - lookUpTable))
% Extract the SA for that column:
SA = numbers(1, closestColumn)

[Muhammad Imran]

But it is not taking input from user.

[Image Analyst]

So why don't you call input() or inputdlg()?

zInput = input('Enter zInput : ');

[Muhammad Imran]

Hi. Actually i have to take two inputs from the user.

One is of soil profile type i.e Sa, Sb, Sc etc. Other one is that Z value i.e 0.075.

And then against these two inputs i have to pick a value of Cv from table which for example,

If user enters Z as 0.075 and Soil profile type as Sa then Cv value should be 0.06.

I will be thankful if you can comment on this.

Thanks