find number of columns on text file

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Richard
Richard 2012-11-20
Is it possible to determine the number of columns in a text file prior to importing the data into matlab?
I can determine the number of rows as follows:
fid = fopen('myFile.txt','rt');
nLines = 0;
while (fgets(fid) ~= -1),
nLines = nLines+1;
end
fclose(fid);
However, is there a way of returning the number of columns? Some of the text files that I need to import contain several column and others contain only one column therefore I require the number of columns in a specific text file in order to use textscan. Note I cannot use importdata or dlmread as some of the files contain nans.
Amended: Consider I create two text files:
d1 = 1+(30-1).*rand(365,3);
d2 = 1+(30-1).*rand(365,1);
mkdir('C:\Matlab_Q');
filename = 'C:\Matlab_Q\ex1.txt';
fid = fopen(filename,'wt');
fprintf(fid,'%f\n',d2);
fclose(fid);
filename = 'C:\Matlab_Q\ex2.txt';
fid = fopen(filename,'wt');
fprintf(fid,'%f\t%f\t%f\n',d1');
fclose(fid);
I now wish to read the number of columns in each text file:
FNames = {'ex1','ex2'};
delimiter = '\t';
for i = 1:length(FNames);
fid = fopen(fullfile('C:\Matlab_Q',[FNames{i} '.txt']),'rt');
tLines = fgets(fid);
numCols{i} = numel(strfind(tLines,delimiter)) + 1;
fclose(fid);
end
This solution returns 1 where it should return 1 and 3. How can this be solved?

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José-Luis
José-Luis 2012-11-20
编辑：José-Luis 2012-11-20
delimiter = ' '; %or whatever
fid = fopen('myFile.txt','rt');
tLines = fgets(fid);
numCols = numel(strfind(tLines,delimiter)) + 1;
fclose(fid);
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José-Luis
José-Luis 2012-11-20
编辑：José-Luis 2012-11-20
You are looking for the string '\t', not for a tab. Use instead:
delimiter = char(9); %for a tab
Or
delimiter = sprintf('\t','');
Mitchell Thayer
Mitchell Thayer 2013-1-7
Snagged that piece of code for use in a parsing function. Thanks!
-:- Mitchell

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