MATLAB: Remove letters tabs and spaces from a string with numbers and letters while creating a vector with the remaining numbers

string manipulationstring parsing

Hello,
I have a file called "SSL.dat". The second line has some numbers I need but it's full of spaces and letters.
fidssl = fopen('SSL.txt','r');
line1ssl=fgetl(fidssl);              
line2ssl=fgetl(fidssl);              %line where the data I need is
This line has the following contents:
mass(Msun)  1.000       9.547922048e-4  2.858857575e-4  4.366245355e-5  5.151391279e-5  8.3459e-9       3.040433607e-6  1.660477111e-7  2.448326284e-6  3.227778035e-7  6.607313077e-9
There are spaces, not tabs, separating each column. I need to remove the letters and split each mass value into a vector so that the vector index matches the column number of said value.
For example, the value "1.000" would match mass(1) and so on.
Can anyone help?

Best Answer

I got a solution. When I use textscan() it keeps everything store as strings. All I have to to is convert them to doubles like so,
fidssl = fopen('SSL.dat','r');
line1_ssl=fgetl(fidssl);
planet_name_list = textscan(line1_ssl,'%s');
line2_ssl=fgetl(fidssl);
masslist = textscan(line2_ssl,'%s');
for i=1:12
   mass(i)=str2double(masslist{1}{i+2})
end
seems to work
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