read file from specific position

hi,

I have this file:

882359 81 1.5

882359 926 1

882359 1349 2

882359 2270 1

882359 3065 5

I want for example read this file but from third row, i used fseek but not useful thanks

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

There is no way to position directly to particular rows in a text file whose lines are variable length.

Not, that is, without having read it in once first and created an index of where each row begins. (Which can be worth doing if you read the file far more often than you write to it.)

(textscan() has a HeaderLines option, which reads the header lines and throws them away for you.)

[huda nawaf]

but in textscan will return just one line

ex.

c = textscan(f, '%f %f %su', 'Delimiter', ',', 'headerLines', 5);

will return just sixth row, I want from 6 to last row

thanks

[Walter Roberson]

textscan() will *not* return just one line. On the other hand, your textscan would be failing because you are attempting to match the literal character 'u' as a fourth field, with the third field being a string. There is no %su format item. If you want your third field to be read as an unsigned 8 bit integer, use %u8 as the format item.

http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/textscan.html

[Kelly Kearney]

Textscan will read until either the end of the file, or until the format specifier no longer matches the text it's trying to parse. I'm not sure what you really meant by the '%su' format, but that's probably what textscan is stumbling over.

Your example data doesn't seem to match your example textscan line, so I can't help you figure out what the format should be.

[Walter Roberson]

Good point, Kelly -- the third field is a floating point number, not a uint8 or the like.

I also see that there are no commas between the fields, such as would be expected by the 'Delimiter', ',' parameter that Huda is using.

Looks like the appropriate command would be

c = textscan(f, '%f%f%f', 'HeaderLines',5);

[huda nawaf]

thank u very much for all .

in fact i'm not see %su, it is just error in print.

i'm so sorry

thanks again