Once again, I ask your help to sort this out.
I'm trying to use texscan to open a .dat file. I want to ignore the 2 headerlines and I'm only interested in the first 5 columns, and the first two I define has beeing strings.
"location"
"DATA" "HORA" "VMED" "VMAX" "DIR" "TEMP" "PRESS"
14-08-1998 15:30 0.00* 0.00* 270.79* 18.71 1008.57
14-08-1998 16:00 1.49 2.69 272.55 18.43 1008.57
14-08-1998 16:30 1.34 2.09 262.00 18.80 1008.57
14-08-1998 17:00 1.72! 2.39 258.13 18.15 1008.74
14-08-1998 17:30 2.24 2.98 253.91 18.43 1008.74
14-08-1998 18:00 2.91 3.58 261.65 18.52 1008.57
Has you can see, some parameters are followed by a symbol ("*" and "!"), I want Matlab to write them has NaN.
I used the following code:
fid=fopen('/Users/…
v = textscan(fid,'%s %s %f %f %f %*s %*s, 'headerLines',2);
v3=v{3};
v4=v{4};
v5=v{5};
Unfortunately, Something is occuring when I try to create v4 has a double, since matlab only creates 3 empty matices. The only way to create the three matrices is to write:
v = textscan(fid,'%s %s %f %s %f %*s %*s, 'headerLines',2);
But that will create a matrix that I can not use.
On top of all that, a new row is being created at the beggining of the matrices, that does not correspond to the first row from the .dat file. Something like:
0
NaN
1,49
1,34
1,72
2,24
2,91
I really can't understand what is wrong! Please help
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