Conveter a string with space in a number
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A have one vector returned by the function textscan which have spaces inside the numerical string.
E.g.:
' 0 0 , 2 3 '
' 1 2 , 1 5 '
First, a have to substitute the ',' by '.' (it's simple) but how I remove the spaces? Because using str2num in this vector is returned error.
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Stephen23
on 26 Aug 2020
Edited: Stephen23
on 26 Aug 2020
"A have one vector returned by the function textscan which have spaces inside the numerical string."
I am surprised that no one brought up the obvious solution, to fix the (likely) problem at its source by handling the file encoding properly. Then textscan would import the data correctly.
Image Analyst
on 26 Aug 2020
Well, someone might have, but the original poster forgot to attach the original text file. That is a common omission. For some reason, many/most posters totally ignore the posting guidelines that they are shown when they post the question, one of which says to attach their data.
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Image Analyst
on 20 Jun 2015
It's pretty much the same except that you set it equal to [] instead of a decimal point:
str(str == ' ') = []; % Remove spaces
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Walter Roberson
on 20 Jun 2015
cellfun(@(str)str(str~=' '), dataArray, 'Uniform', 0)
Walter Roberson
on 20 Jun 2015
cellfun(@(str)str(2:2:end), dataArray, 'Uniform', 0)
in the case where the odd-numbered characters are the blanks.
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 20 Jun 2015
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek
on 20 Jun 2015
s={' 0 0 , 2 3 ';'1 2 , 1 5 '}
a=strrep(s,',','.')
b=strrep(a,' ','')
out=str2double(b)
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