How to read a text file and create a structure array?

Hey,

I have a large data set which is divided into 3 columns and and in two separate text files. I would like to read the data from text files, add the data together so that it is in continuous columns and create a structure from it.

The text files' data is like:

                   $ABC, 00025, 39.24

                     . ,   .  ,  .
                     . ,   .  ,  .

I tried this code:

                     fid = fopen('mydata.txt');

                     C = textscan(fid, '%s%d8%f32');

                     fclose(fid);

                     f = {'Title','Time','Dist'};

                     s = cell2struct(C,f,2);

but it returns a blank structure array. Can somebody please tell me what is wrong with the code?

Thanks.

Answer 1

[ChristianW]

Try to skip the second comma.

C = textscan(fid, '%s%d8%*s%f32');

[Jay]

Thanks, works like a charm.

Now what if I have a second set of similar data which is a continuation of the first. Say mydata2.txt. How do I read this into matlab as well and add it to the first data set to create a single cell array?

[ChristianW]

A simple possibility is to load the 2nd file in a 2nd cell and combine them in a for loop.

...
fid = fopen('mydata2.txt');
C2 = textscan(fid,'%s %d8 %f32','delimiter',',');
fclose(fid);

for i = 1:numel(C1)
    C{i} = [C1{i}; C2{i}];
end
...