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Reputation: 988

Specifying Data Type When Reading from File in MATLAB

I am trying to read experimentally collected data into MATLAB via a text file. The data are all integers in eight columns separated by white space.

I want to open the file, read in the data, and then reshape into the representative array.

So, I have:

fileID = fopen('String name of file');
A = fread(fileid);
B = reshape(A, (length(A) / 8), 8);

By default, fread assumes the data are doubles, but when I try to specify integers, such as fread(fileid, inf, 'int'), the data still come out with the wrong values.

The data were output by a Java program as 'int' and were generated in a Linux environment, but are now in Windows (only MATLAB license I have). I assume this is an issue of specifying the correct data type for the fread but I'm not sure.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 97

Answers (2)

Gordon Bean
Gordon Bean

Reputation: 4602

I don't know about using fread, but textscan should work:

% Open file
fid = fopen('file.txt');

% Scan 8 columns of numeric values
tmp = textscan( fid, repmat('%f ', [1 8]));

% Close file handle
fclose(fid);

% Convert to int and join columns into matrix
data = int32(cat(2, tmp{:}));

Upvotes: 1

chappjc
chappjc

Reputation: 30579

Use *int instead of int. Possibly try int32 or another platform-independent syntax. From the manual for fread:

By default, numeric and character values are returned in class 
'double' arrays. To return these values stored in classes other 
than double, create your PRECISION argument by first specifying 
your source format, then following it by '=>', and finally 
specifying your destination format. If the source and destination 
formats are the same then the following shorthand notation may be 
used:

    *source

which means:

    source=>source

Also note that you can use the simplified reshape syntax:

B = reshape(A, [], 8);

Upvotes: 0

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