MATLAB: How to modify this code to make it import values from a file

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Hi,
The following code opens a file (named "Pulse.acc") and writes c, s and t values as follows:
0 1 0
0 2 0
0 3 0
It also opens another file (named :Case.tcl") and writes each case number.
Each case over-writes the previous one.
I am now trying to import the values of s from the attached file (named "result_40.txt"). This file contains 40 columns and 10 rows. Each value in the columns will be printed in "Pulse.acc" file and excute OpenSees software model (along with c and t values. For example: 0 1 0, as shown above). This needs to continue until the 10th value in the column. Then, the second column starts.
The values of c and t will continue to be zero, so they could be left as below.
It would be great if a folder can be opened for the outputs from each column and numbered sequentially.
I hope I could explain what I want clearly, and please feel freel to let me know if I need to explain it further. 
c=[0 0 0];
s=[1 2 3];
t=[0 0 0];
for j = 1:3
    fidP = fopen('Pulse.acc','w+');
    fidC= fopen('Case.tcl','w+');
    
    fprintf(fidP, '%d\n%d\n%d',c(j), s(j), t(j));
    fprintf(fidC, 'set case %d',j);
    
    fclose(fidP);
    fclose(fidC);
    
    !OpenSees Model.tcl
end

Best Answer

Importing and reading the data into matlab is fairly simple, and you can take your pick of text readers. It sounds like dlmread will work best for what you're trying to accomplish here so I will use that. Alternatively, you can investigate textscan(), csvread(), or just fopen() with fgetl().
fin = 'result_40.txt';
s = dlmread(fin,'');
c = 0;
t = 0;
for i = 1:size(s,2);
    coldir = mkdir(['Column_',num2str(i)]);
    cd(coldir);
    for j = 1:size(s,1);
        fidP = fopen('Pulse.acc','w+');
        fidC= fopen('Case.tcl','w+');
    
        fprintf(fidP, '%d\n%d\n%d',c, s(j,i), t);
        fprintf(fidC, 'set case %d',j);
        fclose(fidP);
        fclose(fidC);
    end
    cd('../');
end
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