How to Split a Text File into Many Text Files ?

I have a text file which contains many Paragraphs.

Each Paragraph starts with a "greater than" ( > ) symbol.

I would like to split each paragraph into new text file using MATLAB.

Is it possible ?

Answer 1

[Jan]

Does the ">" appear as first character in a line or anywhere? Assuming the first:

Str   = fileread(FileName);
CStr  = regexp(Str, '\n', 'split');
Index = [find(strncmp(CStr, '>', 1)), length(CStr) + 1];

for iP = 1:length(Index - 1);
  FID = fopen(sprintf('Paragraph%2d.txt', iP), 'w');
  if FID == - 1, error('Cannot open file for writing'); end
  fprintf('%s\n', CStr{Index(iP):Index(iP + 1) - 1});
  fclose(FID);
end

[deeksha h r]

What if i want to split lines of a paragraph in an image..??

Answer 2

[Sheldon Ho]

The line: fprintf('%s\n', CStr{Index(iP):Index(iP + 1) - 1});

should be: fprintf(FID,'%s\n', CStr{1,Index(iP):Index(iP + 1) - 1});