How to read only text from a big data?
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aneps
on 18 Sep 2017
Commented: Walter Roberson
on 19 Sep 2017
I have a huge data file (.txt) with some text and numeric data. It is organized as follows:
Text1 ....
Numeric data (m1xn1)
Text2
Numeric data (m2xn2)
Text3
Numeric Data (m3xn3).....
so on...
I just want to read the data file and display Text1, Text2, Text3 etc . on the command window. How can do that? I tried the following code which read only the first line. Is it possible to modify the code to read all the text line by line? All these text has 'Scan' in it. So may be by searching for lines with 'Scan' and display in the command window. I dont know how to code this.
file = 'C:\Users\Documents\21072016_Exp_A.txt';
[fid, message] = fopen(file,'rt');
tline = fgets(fid);
disp(tline)
fclose(fid);
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per isakson
on 18 Sep 2017
Edited: per isakson
on 18 Sep 2017
How large is the file compared to the primary memory?
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Walter Roberson
on 18 Sep 2017
S = fileread(file);
S = regexp(S, '^\s*[+0123456789-].*$','match','lineanchors', 'dotexceptnewline') ;
fprintf('%s\n', S{:}) ;
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