MATLAB: Read single “cell” containing partly text and numbers

delimiter readdlmreadMATLABsingle celltextstring

Hallo Matlab forum.
I have a problem with reading a single cell in a space separated text file. The cell is containing a letter and therefore dlmread isn't working.
Example of the file reading.
Kanal     1   
  Range  32768 N/Min/Max/Mean/Zero    3225000 88 288 184 0
  Pressure sensor 1 (1)
  X-POS/Y-POS/CAL/DIM    0   0   4.9681*x + -0.30715
Kanal     2   
  Range  32768 N/Min/Max/Mean/Zero    3225000 -553 -273 -378 0
  Pressure sensor 2 (2)
  X-POS/Y-POS/CAL/DIM    0   0   4.9811*x + 0.56611
I would like to end up with the value "4.9681" and "-0.30715".
Any suggestions on how to make it possible to read these values?

Best Answer

The brute-force way...
>> fmt='%*s %*f %*f %f*x + %f';
>> fid=fopen('lars.txt','r');
>> cell2mat(textscan(fid,fmt,'headerlines',3,'collectoutput',true))
ans =
  4.9811    0.5661
Place in a loop either counted or
while ~feof(fid)
  ...
and concatenate results. If file is large so dynamic reallocation begins to hurt, preallocate a large array first and test for overflow...
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