MATLAB: Reading a text file

Question

Hey everyone!

I have a question regarding textscan[]; command.

I have a file and I want to read it, but somehow I can't get it to read the I want to. The file looks like this :

CsF 33 734824

Al 22 734824

NaCl 77 734824

This is a mere sample and it updates now and then but that's not important. I want it to read in a way that each cell has an information about change. The change consists of element, mass and MatLab date number. So in this case a cell array would be "CsF 33 734824" or {3×1}. I have only been able to read it nicely, but the problem is that all three informations get put into one cell.

So I have whitespace and newline separators.

fid = fopen('Spojine.txt');
R = textscan(fid, '%s', 'delimiter', '\n');
fclose(fid);

If someone would be nice enough to assist my code, that would be lovely! 🙂

Answer 1

I recommend Jan's approach because it puts string into sting and numerical to numerical. But if you want it, you can use reshape().

fid = fopen('test.txt');
R = textscan(fid, '%s');
S=reshape(R{:},3,[]).';
fclose(fid);