MATLAB: Loading .txt file

.txt text load

Hi, How do I load a file like this (3 lines):
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#A=AY/func/7_corrs/broca_4mm_Z_2standard.nii.gz  B=AY2/func/7_corrs/broca_4mm_Z_2standard.nii.gz
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#A           #B           #(A uni B)   #(A int B)   #(A \ B)     #(B \ A)     %(A \ B)    %(B \ A)    Rx(B/A)    Ry(B/A)    Rz(B/A)
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127239       173524       204106       96657        30582        76867        24.0351     44.2976     0.9209     0.9803     1.3314
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What I want to extract in Matlab is..
#A = 127239
#B = 173524
#(A uni B) = 204106
etc…
Thank you,

Best Answer

If you don't need individual variable names then I'd probably go with the simplest approach of
data = dlmread('data.txt','',2,0);
If you have missing values or error codes or other weirdness, then use textscan.
If you have Statistics Toolbox, another approach would be to use dataset to import the data as a dataset array:
data = dataset('File','data.txt','headerlines',1);
The downside is that the variable names will be hideous, due to all the non-valid characters. If you wanted to get vaguely fancy (and had some pattern to how to interpret the names), you could use regexp:
fid = fopen('data.txt','rt');
hdr = fgetl(fid);
hdr = regexp(fgetl(fid),'\t','split');
fclose(fid);
hdr = regexprep(hdr,'#','No_');
hdr = regexprep(hdr,'%','Perc_');
hdr = regexprep(hdr,'\W','');
data = dataset('File','data.txt','headerlines',1);
data.Properties.VarNames = hdr
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