dlmread not working as expected...

    %This is my file (and also the expected output): 
    %0 0.334 12:54:00 9.3 -54
    %0.22 0.592 13:06:00 5.2 -22
    %...........................

    M = dlmread(filename.txt);  
    disp(M);

My current code does not display the expected output.

I have also tried M = dlmread(filename.txt,' '); to specify space delimiters but it returns an error "Mismatch between file and format string. Trouble reading number from file (row 1, field 4) ==> :54:0"

I believe all my values are numeric, since disp(class(12:54:00)) and disp(class(13:06:00)) returns double. Not sure why dlmread doesn't work :(

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

12:54:00 is double because it represent an empty array starting from 12 to 00 with step=54. type

a=12:54:00

I suggest that you use textscan or fgetl to read your data

fid=fopen('YourFileName.txt')
a=textscan(fid,'%f%f%s%f%f')
fclose(fid)