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parse a text file in matlab

October 21st, 2008 by Lawrence David

to parse a text file in matlab that can’t be read using the ‘load’ command, you can use fgetl in the following manner:

fid = fopen(‘file.name’);
while 1
tline = fgetl(fid);
if ~ischar(tline)
break
end

tline
end

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2 Responses to “parse a text file in matlab”

1. on 18 May 2010 at 1:48 pm   Nawaf

   I need to do some kind of statistics on text files, like parsing by words and counting number of words and repetition for each word too. how can I do that by matlab? please help

2. on 18 May 2010 at 1:49 pm   Nawaf

   I need to do some kind of statistics on text files, like parsing by words and counting number of words and repetition for each word too. how can I do that by matlab? please help, please reply to my email.