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Files: read & write


Read .csv files

mydata = readtable('mydata.csv')

mydata = readtable('mydata.csv','Format','%s%s%u%f%f%s')


% check column titles
mydata.Properties.VariableNames
    {'SampleID'}    {'Treatment'}    {'Time'}

% get second column of 'Treatment'
 x = mydata.Treatment % using column name
 
 id = find(ismember(mydata.Properties.VariableNames,'Treatment'))
     2
 x = mydata(:,id); % using column index  id=2
 x = mydata(:,2);   
  
% convert table to cell array
table2cell(mydata)



Read complete text-file

mytext = fileread('mytext.txt');


split lines by newline character \n
textlines = strsplit(mytext,'\n')
textlines{1}
    'text of first line'

remove empty textlines ( → remove empty fields in cell  array )
textlines( cellfun(@isempty, textlines) ) = []



remove newline characters \n
check for ending newline character \n
strcmp(mytext(end),sprintf('\n'))
remove ending character
mytext(end)=[]

remove all newline characters
strrep(mytext,sprintf('\n'),'')


Read line by line from a text file


fid = fopen('myfile.txt', 'r');
  while ~feof(fid) % while not end-of-file
    fileline = fgets(fid); % read line by line
    ... % do something with each file line
  end
fclose(fid);


% example: search string "www" in each line of a text file
fid = fopen('myfile.txt', 'r');
  while ~feof(fid) % while not end-of-file
    fileline = fgets(fid); % read line by line

    fileline = strrep(fileline,sprintf('\n'),''); % remove newline character
    if ~isempty(strfind(fileline,'www')) % search string "www" in line
      disp('Found string "www" in line')
      disp(fileline)
    end

  end
fclose(fid);


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