read header information by readtable

Hi,

I want to read the header information of a data file, like this:

EDFversion : 0

PatientID : B0018

RecordID : 02

startDate : 29.04.98

startTime : 23:18:00

headerSize : 4352

reserved :

numberDataRecord : 9711

dataRecordDuration : 3

numberSignals : 16

How do I read variable names and their values in coloumn with different data format -- some are strings, some are date & time, some are empty and some are double? Thanks in advance!

[Walter Roberson]

is it a text file or an excel file?

The EDF Version header suggests that it is EDF format. There are functions to read EDF files, such as edfreader()

[Sebastiano Marinelli]

you can try to use the 'Format' field in the readTable function where you are going to read each column with a differnt format

app.meas_table = readtable(yourFile,'Format','%s%d%f');

In this case I'm going to read the first column as a string, the second as a integer and the third one as a float

%d: integer

%s: String

For the date format I suggest you to read it as a string.

Let me know if it works

[Walter Roberson]

Format can only be used for text files, and at the moment we do not know the file format.

[Bolun Chen]

Hi, Walter! It's a .txt file. Thanks!

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/signal/ref/edfread.html