- C = textscan(fileID,formatSpec,N) reads file data using the formatSpec N times, where N is a positive integer. To read additional data from the file after N cycles, call textscan again using the original fileID. If you resume a text scan of a file by calling textscan with the same file identifier (fileID), then textscan automatically resumes reading at the point where it terminated the last read.
How to ignore or delete the last row of a text file when importing?
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I am reading in data using textscan. Often times the last row of data is bad and throws an error. How can I ignore the last line? or is there code to delete the last row of data in the text file programmatically?
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Star Strider
on 31 May 2015
It’s difficult to be specific without your file. If you know how many lines you want to read, you can set that limit as a parameter.
From the documentation:
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Image Analyst
on 31 May 2015
Put it in a try catch block. Look it up in the help. You can just have your catch block be empty if you want to ignore any errors.
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