Re: Parsing Data

dpb <none@non.net> wrote in message
<g5g4lq$1ks$1@aioe.org>...

the main reason why i can't do the whole file that way is
because there are other data types in the structure of the
file.  besides the numbers there is times, dates, and long
strings that have spaces... i wasn't sure which way to and
be most efficient

Markthomas

As written you're asking for two return values but telling it to skip
the first and return only one.

You're also asking for a space between the two strings -- whether it
will ignore that or not I didn't test.

Lastly, the line above doesn't match the "title=value" format you asked
about to begin with.  It looks like you may want to use the
'headerlines' option of textread().

Why are you doing it this way instead of reading the whole file, anyway?

If you want the names as well as the values, then

   [n,b]=textread('yourfile.dat','%s%d','delimiter','=');

worked for a sample file of data as in your first posting...

doc textread

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dpb <none@non.net> wrote in message <g5fo6p$au6
$1@aioe.org>...

I was tried to use the strread command but was not getting
what i wanted:

readin = upper(fgetl(id)) --- i get TYPE=ALL OTHER COMB.
[name value] = strread(readin,'%*s %s','delimeter','=')

but couldn't get it to work... any ideas on this command?

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See if

  b=textread('yourfile.dat','%*s%d','delimiter','=');

suits...

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Hello all,

  I am trying to parse some data that looks like:

bfleft1=0
bfleft2=378
.
.
.
bfleft298=895
bfleft299=900

and i was wondering what the best way to go about doing
it.  I have other headers other then bfleft# but figured i
could figure it out after i learned how to do it!  I was
guessing i had to search for the "=" then try to get
everything to the left and right.  Thanks a bunch

markthomas