ascii data type
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i am making a program that needs to import data from a elcomat 2000 into a matlab workspace. teh data type i get is an ascii type. how would i convert an ascii type to a decimal? i am using the fread command to read data from the instrument.
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Rob Graessle
on 3 Jun 2011
Since ASCII characters are encoded as unsigned 8-bit integers, you can store them as a UINT8 data type in MATLAB. You can use the UINT8 function to get the ASCII values of a character string.
>> a='ABCabc!@#$%^&*()-+'
a =
ABCabc!@#$%^&*()-+
>> uint8(a)
ans =
65 66 67 97 98 99 33 64 35 36 37 94 38 42 40 41 45 43
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Walter Roberson
on 3 Jun 2011
Only if it is US-ASCII ;-)
There were a number of different ASCII. For example, in the UK version of ASCII, the position held by '$' is the pound sign.
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