how to open this file

Hello .. I need to open file have this information

1|24|M|technician|85711
2|53|F|other|94043
3|23|M|writer|32067
4|24|M|technician|43537
5|33|F|other|15213
6|42|M|executive|98101
7|57|M|administrator|91344
8|36|M|administrator|05201
9|29|M|student|01002
10|53|M|lawyer|90703

how to open this in Matlab .I use dlmread but the format data is failed. please help me

[Stephen23]

Does your file really have parentheses at the beginning of the first line, and end of the last line?

It would be much simpler if you edit your question and upload the complete file, then we can try it for yourselves. Click the paperclip button, then both Choose file and Attach file buttons.

[zainab hp]

no don't have . Ok I will repeat it.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

You cannot use dlmread with that file because (as its documentation states quite clearly on the very first line) dlmread reads an "ASCII-delimited file of numeric data into matrix". Does the file have only numeric data? No, it does not. It is amazing how useful it is to read the MATLAB documentation.

You can use textscan to read that file:

fid = fopen('temp.txt','rt');
C = textscan(fid,'%f%f%s%s%f','Delimiter','|');
fclose(fid);

reads the file into one cell array C. You can access each column by indexing into C:

>> C{1} % 1st column
ans =
     1
     2
     3
     4
     5
     6
     7
     8
     9
    10
>> C{3} % 3rd column
ans = 
    'M'
    'F'
    'M'
    'M'
    'F'
    'M'
    'M'
    'M'
    'M'
    'M'

The file I used to test my code is attached here:

[zainab hp]

Thank you very much .You really help me . Thank you again .