fileID = fopen(filename);
Cdata = textscan(fileID,'%f32 %f32 %f32','HeaderLines',5);
% find the point coordinates: (the following was my attempt at trying
% to implement the following answer)
while ~feof(fileID)
st = fgetl(fileID);
if isempty(strfind(st,'Point: (')) % I'd like to re
...
You've moved past the point in the file of the data of interest for the coordinates by reading the rest of the data firsl...your code to read the file line-by-line is fine, it's just misplaced in that you need to read that first, then you could continue on to read the rest of the file, but you won't need (and won't want) any 'Headerlines' argument then; you'll have read all the preceding lines already.
You could just insert a rewind(fileID) but that's kinda' clunky...
for i = 1:length(AllFileNames)
fileID = fopen(AllFileNames{i});
while ~feof(fileID)
st = fgetl(fileID);
if isempty(strfind(st,'Point: ')), continue, end % skip the unwanted records
xy=str2double(split(extractBetween(extractBetween(l,'Point:','Electric'),'(',')'),','));
end
Cdata = textscan(fileID,'%f32 %f32 %f32','HeaderLines',5);
fclose(fileID);
% remember to do whatever with xy, Cdata here before going on to the next
% file...otherwise, will just overwrite and have only the last set in the
% end
...
end
Got rather clever in the use of the new-fangled string class functions, the above works as long as the word 'Electric' also immediately follows the wanted point set--if there's another variable possibly in one of the files then you'll need somewhat more robust pattern matching to locate the substring...but it isn't hard, I just used that as being convenient with the given string to isolate the one desired set of parentheses from the multiple ones would get if just extractAfter with 'Point: ' as the pattern.
