Acquire data from text files in MATLAB

Question

I have a big problem to Acquire a block of data structured in a particular way. Here\'s how the data are to be acquired (is a txt):

V|0|0|0|t|0|1|1|4|11|T4|         


        

Answer 1

take a look at textscan

do you have any control over the format of the textfile?

EDIT

here's a rather hackish way to achieve the result

function readtest()

fid = fopen('test.txt'); 

%skip 3 lines, save 4th, skip 5th
for i = 1:4
    names = fgetl(fid);
end
fgetl(fid);

% separate out names
names = textscan(names,'%s','delimiter','|');

% read the data
data = textscan(fid,'%s %s %d %s %s %d %d %f %f %f %[| ]','delimiter','|');

fclose(fid);




for i = 1:size(data,2)-1
    values = ( data{i}(1:end));
    if(iscell(values))
        values = cell2mat(values);
    end

    name = names{1}{i+1};

    % very basic error checking
    if(~strcmp(name, ''))

        %save the value in the calling work space
        assignin('caller', name, values)
    end
end