Reading strings from text file to a MATLAB cell array
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I have a text file with data that looks like this:
Ta Example Name1
Tn Example Name2
Th Example Name3
Td Example Name4
Tg Example Name5
The 'Ta', 'Tn', etc. will always be the same length of 2 characters but 'Example Name1' and 'Example Name2' will not. I'd like to read this information into a cell array or other array in MATLAB so that the first column contains the identifier (Ta, Tn, Th, etc.) and the second column contains the name.
I've tried several approaches using a CSV file but it was difficult to append the file with a cell array of strings (not supported with xlswrite, dlmwrite, etc.).
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KL
on 27 Nov 2017
Try textscan,
fid = fopen('file.txt');
data = textscan(fid,'%s%s%s');
fclose(fid);
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Lennah Etyang
on 1 Jun 2020
I have been stuck at this point for a while and now it has just worked. Thanks for the solution.
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