can not read this file

hi

I have txt file with big size (570 MB). I try to read it

by this code:

 f1=fopen('d:\matlab11\bin\test1.txt');

 c=textscan(f1,'%d %d %f %s %s');

 fclose(f1);

 c1=c{1}; c2=c{2};c3=c{3};c4=c{4};c5=c{5};

 u_user=unique(c1);

 u_movie=unique(c2);

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but I did not get the sme data and not all.

I tried with small part from the same data , I got correct data.

this is the sample:

852910  47995  5  2008-08-16 00:00:00

852910  49280  4.5  2008-05-05 00:00:00

852910  49325  4.5  2008-06-10 00:00:00

852910  48116  5  2008-01-12 00:00:00

how I can read this big size file?

thanks in advance

[Oleg Komarov]

Then the file could be corrupt, check it from where you stopped reading it.

Answer 1

[Ken Atwell]

textscan can return a second output, "pos", which will return the position that textscan stopped at if an error occurred (which seems to be the case here). You can also determine where the error is by the length of what textscan managed return in the first output. If you text file is, say, 10000 row long and c{1} is only 1234 rows long, your error is around that row.

[huda nawaf]

thanks,

in fact it is not error but when need see c1

i get Empty matrix: 0-by-1

the no. of rows is 8196077.

I would like to say that my code can read the same file (the same no. of rows) but with three columns correctly .why when be five columns with same no. of rows get empty matrix?