Import from data from messy text file
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Hi, I have looked through the questions and answers that are already available for this topic but wasn't able to apply those to my situation.
For the attached file, I need to extract the data for each "Specimen." The data that i need are the three columns corresponding to the 500+ rows for each specimen. If possible, I would like to save it in to different arrays. One for each specimen.
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Pretty straightforward, just use the features in the file to find the wanted sections...it's quite regular in its construction so don't even have to do very much looking for what want--should get you started:
fid=fopen('Sample_DATA.TXT','r'); % open file
N=cell2mat(textscan(fid,'Number of specimens: %d %*[^\n]','headerlines',11));
for i=1:N % loop over number specimens in file
l=fgetl(fid); % initialize string to find start of section
while isempty(strfind(l,'Specimen:')),l=fgetl(fid);end % find the Specimen: n start
while isempty(strfind(l,'_')), l=fgetl(fid);end % then line break before data
d(i)=textscan(fid,'','delimiter',',','collectoutput',1); % the nth specimen data set
end
fid=fclose(fid);
Result will be a cell array of N nx3 data arrays. Above at command line here leaves:
> whos d
Name Size Bytes Class Attributes
d 1x3 39564 cell
>> d
d =
[532x3 double] [561x3 double] [548x3 double]
>>
Looks about right...
If the sections of auxiliary inputs, etc., are always a fixed length could use line counts in 'headerlines' parameter and avoid the while loops looking for section start, but the above will work for different sizes of those elements as long as the sections remain the same. For files of this size, that won't be that much overhead to process on a record-by-record basis anyway...
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Zekeftw
2016-7-31
Under help for cell arrays in Data Types section is "Access the contents of cells by indexing with curly braces, {}. For more information, see <Access Data in a Cell Array>. Also note cellfun to do operations on cell arrays w/o explicitly dereferencing them which would serve for step 1 above although plot will need need to have the arrays and while cellfun will work given plot as the function, it doesn't have enough granularity to let you set hold on in between or create a new axes unless you write a complementary function to use that can handle the details so "use the curlies, Luke!"
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Shameer Parmar
2016-7-28
Here is that can help you..
Data = textread('SAMPLE_DATA.txt', '%s', 'delimiter', '');
count=1;
newData = {};
for i=1:length(Data)
if ~isempty(strfind(Data{i},','))
newData{count,1} = Data{i};
count=count+1;
end
end
count1=1;
count2=0;
Specimen = {};
for i=1:length(newData)
linedata = newData{i};
if ~isempty(strfind(linedata(1:2),'1,'))
count2=count2+1;
count1=1;
Specimen{count1,count2} = linedata;
else
count1=count1+1;
Specimen{count1,count2} = linedata;
end
end
to check the output
type
Specimen(:,2);
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