Error, Index in position 2 exceeds array bounds!!

When I start loading my text file I get this error how to resolve? the text file is attached. And I am getting this error :

Index in position 2 exceeds array bounds.

Error in damping (line 12) freq=dm(:,1);

close all

clear all

% LOAD DATA OBTAINED FROM FEA ANALYSIS load Sp.txt; dm= Sp; freq=dm(:,1); amp=dm(:,2);

[Walter Roberson]

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Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

My bet is that dm is empty which would imply either that your Sp.txt document is empty or it's not loading correctly.

dm = []; 
dm(:,1)
Index in position 2 exceeds array bounds.

[zainab malik]

No its not empty here is the file

[zainab malik]

How may i load it correctly kindly help me out.

[Adam Danz]

Step 1: understand what load() does and why that doesn't work with txt files. Please don't skip this step.

help load

Step 2: understand how dlmread() works.

help dlmread

Step 3: instead of using load(), use dlmread() with your txt file. I've tested it with your data and it works perfectly.

[zainab malik]

Mismatch between file and format character vector. Trouble reading 'Numeric' field from file (row number 1, field number 1) ==> ÿþ1 0 8 . 8 3 E - 0 5 \n

Error in damping (line 10) dlmread('Sp.txt');

I am getting this error when i use dlmread as:

dm = dlmread('Sp.txt'); freq=dm(:,1); amp=dm(:,2); figure(1)

[Adam Danz]

This is weird. If I cut and paste your entire Sp.txt document into a new text file, the code works. But if I use your original file, it results in the error you shared.

I attached the identical copy-pasted file I used that works.

dm = dlmread('SpDanz.txt');

[zainab malik]

Thank you sooooooo much. May be when i converted data from excel file to txt file at that time i used a wrong .txt type. Thats why it was not working I used Unicode.txt. Thanku very much :)

[Walter Roberson]

Sorry, just noticed the content of the question now. The original file is in UTF 16 Little Endian encoding.

You can use my csv2table from This Posting . You will need both files I posted there.