MATLAB: Reading .txt file of values separated by semicolon

Hi,

I'm trying to open a file and put into an array a .txt file that is set up as follows: name1;name2;name3;etc

I tried creating some code that would open this file, read it, and put it into an array. However, it creates a 1×1 array with the entire string of names in one place. Is there a way to splitting these up?

fileName = fopen('data.txt')

C = textscan(fileName, '%s')

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 C = textscan(fileName, '%s','Delimiter',';')

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Try this low-level code:

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x = randi(9,[1,2*6001]); % ACTUAL DATA

fileID = fopen('data.txt','w');

for k = 1:2:numel(x)-1

fprintf(fileID,'%g,%g;',x(k),x(k+1));

end

fclose(fileID);

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Enjoy!

MATLAB: Concatenate data using fgets

You are closing the file in the loop. close the file after the loop. I assume the below should work.

function read_datapattern(filename)
fid = fopen(filename,'rt');
if fid < 0
  error('error opening file %s\n\n',filename);
end
pattern = fgets(fid);
for n = 1:32767
  nextline = fgets(fid);
  pattern = strcat(pattern, nextline);
fprintf(pattern);
fprintf('\n');
end
fclose(fid);

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