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Nicolas
Nicolas on 6 Apr 2018
Answered: Nicolas on 6 Apr 2018
Hi, I'm creating text files from another program that I want to import into Matlab. I have been using the import wizard matlab option (see attachment), however the size of each file is different. In the function created by Matlab, I would like to know if the 'formatSpec' can be defined automatically or if I can create it for every new file?
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Rik
Rik on 6 Apr 2018
If you can deduce for each file what the format spec should be, you can just use it as an input to this function
Nicolas
Nicolas on 6 Apr 2018
Edited: Nicolas on 6 Apr 2018
what I know is the number of time '%s' is repeated in the 'formatSpec'. not sure if I can build 'formatSpec' myself? be able to write %s."number of values"%[^\n\r]

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Nicolas
Nicolas on 6 Apr 2018
Answer to automatically build 'formatSpec' using the import function created by Matlab.
A = repmat('%s',1,201);
B = '%[^\n\r]';
formatSpec = strcat(A,B);

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