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Debo Chaudhuri
Debo Chaudhuri

Reputation: 21

How to split data text file with equal elements in the row into several files in MATLAB or Fortran?

I am not an expert in matlab and use it for simple calculations in physics. I have never tried data mining with it. However, at the moment, I want to split data text file with equal elements in the row into several files. The blocks of the text file that needs to be separated into several files are separated by a blank line. I want to store the information in arrays. The test data set can be found here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lRuQIx0QzVhMFtROQOJC3uJcg_Fbvfoq/view?usp=sharing

I am trying to create a small script that writes all blocks in the original file into separate output files that contain only one block. Ideally these files would be named as the name as data1.txt data2.txt and so on where 1 and 2 are the number of blocks. Any help/suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 89

Answers (1)

MichaelTr7
MichaelTr7

Reputation: 4767

Here's a function that I've created that can be called by:

Here's the function uploaded to GitHub

Function Call:

File_Name = "Tryout.txt";
Subsection_Text(File_Name);

The code below isn't the most concise but it should do the trick. It parses the text file line by line using the function fgetl(). The blank lines are used as delimiters for starting a new file. The tricky part involved the way MATLAB can evaluate spaces as a character. Using the fact that every line in this data set either has an X, Y or Z character sets the definition for what constitutes as a line.

Full Script:

clear;
clc;

Mode = 'rt'; 
File_ID = fopen("Tryout.txt",Mode);
Break_Condition = 0;

Line_Index = 1;

while(Break_Condition < 3)

Text = string(fgetl(File_ID));
 
Empty = ~contains(Text,["X" "Y" "Z"]);

if(~Empty)
Break_Condition = 0;
Lines(Line_Index,1) = Text;
end    

if(Empty)
Break_Condition = Break_Condition + 1;   
Lines(Line_Index,1) = "";
end
   
Line_Index = Line_Index + 1;
end

Lines = Lines(1:length(Lines)-3);
fclose(File_ID);

Break_Condition = 0;
Block_Index = 1; 

Save_File_ID = fopen("data" + num2str(Block_Index) +".txt",'w');

for Line_Index = 1: length(Lines)
Print_Text = Lines(Line_Index,1);



if(Print_Text ~= "")
Break_Condition = 0;
fprintf(Save_File_ID,"%s",Lines(Line_Index,1));
fprintf(Save_File_ID,"\n");
end


if(Print_Text == "")
Break_Condition = Break_Condition + 1;
if(Break_Condition == 2)
fprintf("Start new file\n");
Block_Index = Block_Index + 1;
Save_File_ID = fopen("data" + num2str(Block_Index) +".txt",'w');
end
    
end

Results:

Tryout.txt

  1   S            X  0.00026468  0.05840333 -0.00000503  0.00000220 -0.00006671
                   Y  0.01038702 -0.00000313  0.00000194  0.00000252  0.05330246
                   Z -0.00000018  0.00000340  0.04070305  0.00007263 -0.00000140
  2   S            X  0.00014171  0.03011383  0.00010166 -0.05798360 -0.00000669
                   Y  0.04058891 -0.00017498  0.00020915 -0.00000008  0.01402693
                   Z -0.03503189  0.00020203  0.04033549  0.00007595  0.04355313
  3   S            X  0.00014261  0.03010885 -0.00010647  0.05798668 -0.00001234
                   Y  0.04058889 -0.00017504 -0.00020776  0.00000080  0.01402683
                   Z  0.03503150 -0.00019534  0.04033281  0.00007114 -0.04355608

                   
  1   S            X  0.04356337 -0.00000001  0.02077084  0.00000015  0.00000034
                   Y  0.00002152 -0.00000006  0.00000140  0.00000007  0.00877642
                   Z  0.00000016  0.00000034  0.00000006 -0.01895397 -0.00000002
  2   S            X -0.03932055  0.00258729 -0.03252282  0.00000100  0.00000117
                   Y  0.00000868 -0.00000106  0.00000134 -0.03714789  0.00961379
                   Z  0.00001393  0.00000251 -0.00000096  0.05653194 -0.05987231
  3   S            X -0.03931981 -0.00258731 -0.03252280 -0.00000137  0.00000116
                   Y  0.00000868  0.00000102  0.00000088  0.03714794  0.00961382
                   Z -0.00001360  0.00000259  0.00000015  0.05653178  0.05987235


  1   S            X  0.00000001 -0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000003  0.00000000
                   Y -0.00000002  0.00000000 -0.00000000 -0.00993526  0.00000000
                   Z -0.03154647  0.00000025  0.02119553  0.00000000  0.00793086
  2   S            X  0.00000002  0.01626500 -0.00000011  0.00000003 -0.00000006
                   Y  0.04786716 -0.00000021 -0.02203705  0.01792716  0.02061079
                   Z  0.00338406  0.00000018  0.03888413 -0.02145517  0.01502515
  3   S            X -0.00000002 -0.01626500  0.00000011  0.00000003  0.00000006
                   Y -0.04786706  0.00000021  0.02203705  0.01792717 -0.02061079
                   Z  0.00338411  0.00000018  0.03888412  0.02145518  0.01502514

data1.txt

  1   S            X  0.00026468  0.05840333 -0.00000503  0.00000220 -0.00006671
                   Y  0.01038702 -0.00000313  0.00000194  0.00000252  0.05330246
                   Z -0.00000018  0.00000340  0.04070305  0.00007263 -0.00000140
  2   S            X  0.00014171  0.03011383  0.00010166 -0.05798360 -0.00000669
                   Y  0.04058891 -0.00017498  0.00020915 -0.00000008  0.01402693
                   Z -0.03503189  0.00020203  0.04033549  0.00007595  0.04355313
  3   S            X  0.00014261  0.03010885 -0.00010647  0.05798668 -0.00001234
                   Y  0.04058889 -0.00017504 -0.00020776  0.00000080  0.01402683
                   Z  0.03503150 -0.00019534  0.04033281  0.00007114 -0.04355608

data2.txt

  1   S            X  0.04356337 -0.00000001  0.02077084  0.00000015  0.00000034
                   Y  0.00002152 -0.00000006  0.00000140  0.00000007  0.00877642
                   Z  0.00000016  0.00000034  0.00000006 -0.01895397 -0.00000002
  2   S            X -0.03932055  0.00258729 -0.03252282  0.00000100  0.00000117
                   Y  0.00000868 -0.00000106  0.00000134 -0.03714789  0.00961379
                   Z  0.00001393  0.00000251 -0.00000096  0.05653194 -0.05987231
  3   S            X -0.03931981 -0.00258731 -0.03252280 -0.00000137  0.00000116
                   Y  0.00000868  0.00000102  0.00000088  0.03714794  0.00961382
                   Z -0.00001360  0.00000259  0.00000015  0.05653178  0.05987235

data3.txt

  1   S            X  0.00000001 -0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000003  0.00000000
                   Y -0.00000002  0.00000000 -0.00000000 -0.00993526  0.00000000
                   Z -0.03154647  0.00000025  0.02119553  0.00000000  0.00793086
  2   S            X  0.00000002  0.01626500 -0.00000011  0.00000003 -0.00000006
                   Y  0.04786716 -0.00000021 -0.02203705  0.01792716  0.02061079
                   Z  0.00338406  0.00000018  0.03888413 -0.02145517  0.01502515
  3   S            X -0.00000002 -0.01626500  0.00000011  0.00000003  0.00000006
                   Y -0.04786706  0.00000021  0.02203705  0.01792717 -0.02061079
                   Z  0.00338411  0.00000018  0.03888412  0.02145518  0.01502514

Upvotes: 0

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