Question

I was hoping someone might be able to help me with reading in a file with textscan (or some other function in Matlab). The documentation and examples online have been no help to me and I guess I am missing something intuitive 🙁 Here is what the structure of the file I want to read in looks like:

ID,  Date of ID,    C 1-1,  C 1-2,  M R3,   M R4,   Glob ID Settings
TPOL_430_412_10X,   5/5/2011 20:23, 0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, 5.00_5.00_3_300.00_3_0.00
TPOL_430_412_10X,   5/5/2011 20:23, 0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, 5.00_5.00_3_300.00_3_0.00
TPOL_430_412_10X,   5/5/2011 20:23, 0,  0,  1,  0,  1,  5.00_5.00_3_300.00_3_0.00
TPOL_430_412_10X,   5/5/2011 20:23  0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, 5.00_5.00_3_300.00_3_0.00
TPOL_430_412_10X,   5/5/2011 20:23  0,  0,  0,  0,  -1, 5.00_5.00_3_300.00_3_0.00

Where my file is a .csv file so the delimiter is a comma. What I have been trying to no avail is the following:

fmt = [repmat('%s',1,2), repmat('%f',1,5),'%*s %[^\n]'];
fid = fopen('file.csv','rt');
data = textscan(fid, fmt, 'HeaderLines', 1);
fclose(fid);

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I used this

A = textscan(fid,'%s %s %s %f %f %f %f %f %s', 'HeaderLines', 1);

it should split all the parameters you want to read into a cell A with size (1,9).

Hope this helps.