how to read NASA AMES FORMAT data

I havea data with '.nas' extension (NASA AMES FORMAT). Is there a way to read it. I tried readtable and dlmread. None would work.

Please see the data attached as .zip

an update: see the solution in 'answers'

[KSSV]

you can zip it and attach..

[SChow]

Thanks! attached

[KSSV]

You can read that file using textscan. Read about it.

[SChow]

Thanks but sorry, textscan couldnot read it.

Can you show how textscan is able to read this data?

Answer 1

[SChow]

Okay,

Matlab cannot read .nas files, so one needs rename the .nas files to .txt (or similarly suitable extensions), and then read the .txt files using textscan

See below for an example

filename=('pwd')

FID=fopen(filename);
datacell = textscan(FID, '%f%f%f%f', 'HeaderLines', 53, 'CollectOutput', 1); %%%removing the first 53 lines that are headers
data=cell2mat(datacell)
fclose(FID);

[Walter Roberson]

no, when you fopen you can give any file name. fopen does not use the file name to identify the type of the file in any way.