Hi,
Matlab has all sorts of sophisticated functionality for importing datasets stored in text files, with plenty of options to control input behavior, variable names, replacement options, etc. etc.
What I am looking to do seems to need some of this functionality, but is fairly simple, and what I have found so far seems to be overkill, or doesn't work well. Can someone advise a better way?
Goal: Take a simple name/value list of parameters in a text file and write to a struct (preferred) or cell array, with datatypes appropriately converted and variable names stored as fields.
Example:
Input
myParamFile.txt:
dt .01x0 0y0 0flag1 falseflag2 trueinputArray [1 0 0; 0 1 0; 0 0 1]jobname 'myjob'
Output:
myStruct = struct with fields: dt: 0.0100 x0: 0 y0: 0 flag1: 0 flag2: 1 inputArray: [3×3 double] jobname: 'myjob'
The point here is that whatever process/function that converts the input to the output will recognize the datatype and convert it appropriately, ideally creating struct fields based on the variable names in the textfile.
I could certainly build a custom parser to do this, but it seems that there is enough built-in Matlab functionality designed to work with text data I am curious if there is an existing and/or simpler way.
Thanks!
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