Error: Brace indexing is not supported for variables of this type.

I am attempting to read in a txt file. However, I keep getting a brace indexing error. How is this resolved?

>> filename=('Read_In_1.txt');
fileID = fopen(filename);

% Example data in file
% UI = "555"
% SDD = "133"
% SOD = "200"

% Read data into a table, delimiter being a space
T = readtable(filename,'Delimiter',' ');
[r,c] = size(T);

% With example data, table will be 3x3
% Column 1, T.Var1 containing variable names
% Column 2, T.Var2 containing '=' for all rows
% Column 3, T.Var3 containing variable values as text strings

% only interested in column 1 & column 3 data
% Assign a variable with name from T.Var1{ii} the numerical value 
% derived from T.Var3(ii)
for ii = 1:r
    assignin('base',T.Var1{ii},str2double(cell2mat(T.Var3(ii))));
end

% Show what's in workspace now
whos

fclose(fileID);

return
Brace indexing is not supported for variables of this type.

Error in cell2mat (line 36)
    if isnumeric(c{1}) || ischar(c{1}) || islogical(c{1}) || isstruct(c{1})

Answer 1

[Rik]

Why are you reading your file like that? And why are you using assignin? There is no reason to be using that here.

Since you're using R2021a I would suggest using readlines to read your text file.

txt=readlines('foo.txt');
[field,value]=arrayfun(@customFunction,txt);
data=struct;
for n=1:numel(field)
    data.(field(n))=value(n);
end
data

data = struct with fields:
     UI: 555
    SDD: 133
    SOD: 200

function [f,v]=customFunction(str)
str=split(str,'=');
f=strrep(deblank(str(1)),'"','');
v=str2double(strrep(deblank(str(2)),'"',''));
end

[Ryan]

Perfect! Thank you Rik for that!