MATLAB: Textscan question

floating pointgramskilogramsnew linetextscanunsigned

I'm using textscan to read text from instrument. text file looks like this :

-000.26

0000.00

-001.26

0000.00

-011.26

0000.00

-222.26

0000.00…etc.

The output of the device is in kg(kilograms). I want to read data as g(grams) without the minus and every other line(skip lines with zeroes).

Example :

-000.26 = 260

-001.26 = 1260

-011.26 = 11260

-111.26 = 111260

I used '%f32', but it reads as 0.2600(still in kg).

Thanks!

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Use a %f format, take the absolute value, multiply by 1000, and round().

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