I have a text file that, when opened in excel, contains columns of data.
I want to use textread in matlab to read a specific column of data.
So, if it were an excel file, I could do:
Data = 'My_data_file.xlsx';
Column_C = xlsread(Data,'C:C');
But how do I do this with a text file?
Thanks!
You will need to know the format of your file. If you have a file that looks like this :
Name,Price,Volume
Sally,120,4.8
John,135,35.49324
You could use the following code :
[~,~,C]=textread('file.txt',%s,%f,%f);
You will insert a ~ to suppress output of certain columns.
Not tested, but you can go through--
help textread;
help csvwrite;
Once you get csv from txt, by
[num, txt, all] = xlsread('My_data_file.csv');
you can get everything inall.
How to get the column, you know well.
Related
I have a very similar issue as the following question that was previously asked:
readtable on text file ignores first row which contains the column names
However, in my case, the file is consistently formatted correctly. All values are separated by a single space, including the first row, which consists of the column headers. I've tried switching the spaces to tabs, but this did not fix anything.
I am simply using the following code:
% Get list of file names from current directory and make file name variable
filelist = ls();
filename=filelist(3,1:97);
% create table object using file name
DE_genelst_raw_CntrlMvF = readtable(filename);
And where I should have a table with 6 rows and 5 columns with headers, I get a 6x5 table with the column headers missing. I used the readtable function with a more complex delimited dataset and it correctly included the headers. So I know it should be able to work. just not sure what is wrong. If need be I can provide a copy of the file. Thank you for the help.
i want to read text and numbers from an excel file. when i write the code as below it can not read the text data from excel file. how can i fix it? thank for taking your time.
data = xlsread('normalize.xlsx');
the picture of excel file is here:
and the picture of data that created from the code is hear:
'xlsread' and 'csvread' are both for reading numeric data in MATLAB. If you are on a Windows platform and have Microsoft Excel installed, you can use the following syntax with 'xlsread' to read your data into two cell arrays:
[num_data string_data] = xlsread('normalize.xlsx');
You will have the text column in your data in the string_data array. The corresponding column in num_data will still have NAN.
I am trying to use xlsread functioin to read spreadsheets of 6000x2700 (xlsx file).
I have two questions:
First, when I use something like
[num,txt,~]=xlsread(input_file,input_sheet,'A1:CYY6596')
Matlab keeps showing 'busy' and lose response (while I can open it in excel within 30 seconds).
Is there any solution If I don't want to loop through ranges of the xlsx file? In other word, can I just dump spreadsheet of this size into matlab using xlsread?
Alternatively, Maybe I can use loops to read these files range by range, but I cannot identify the last column of each of the spreadsheets unless I read the whole file first. Therefore, If I cannot identify the last column, it is hard to make loops and do my interpretation on the file.
So My second questions is: Is there a way to identify the last column of the spreadsheet without reading the whole spreadsheet?
Thanks.
EDIT:However, if I run a similar code which only reads first 400 columns ('A1:RY6596') of the spreadsheet, such problem doesn't happen.
which version of matlab you are using?
matlab has a problem to load bix excell file.
convert the excell in csv and use M = csvread(filename).
You can try to convert .xlsx into .xls also.
You can Try the tool in
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When I use the readtable function I get the following error:
IVcellData = readtable('RiskModelData','Sheet',2,'Range','A1:A49')
Error using readtable (line 129) Invalid parameter name: Sheet.
Would appreciate if anyone could help me.
Have you renamed Sheet 2 to something else, e.g. Datafile? If so, you need to use this name (inside single quotes) not the sheet number instead of 2 in that call.
Also, you need to make a call to
opts = detectImportOptions(yourfilename)
before the call to readtable. I suspect this one is this cause as it is not recognising Sheet as a variable.
Took me a while to discover that lot, mostly empirical as the documentation is not clear on that point.
Keith
Looks like you need to define extension:
T = readtable(filename) creates a table by reading column oriented data from a file.
readtable determines the file format from the file name's extension:
.txt, .dat, or .csv for delimited text files
.xls, .xlsb, .xlsm, .xlsx, .xltm, .xltx, or .ods for spreadsheet files
try ReadModelData.xls or .xlsx
I need to open a text file and convert it into a CSV file in Matlab. The first 3 lines of the text file are sentences that need to be omitted. The next 28 lines are numbers that need to make up the first column of the CSV, and then the next 28 lines need to make up the second column.
The text file is called datanal.txt and the output file can be named anything. Any help would be appreciated.
Don't have Matlab now to test, but try this. Your input file should be in Matlab's current directory, or put the full path to the file name.
A = csvread('datanal.txt',3,0);
A = reshape(A,28,2);
csvwrite('output.csv',A)
well you can add #'s in front of the first 3 lines then use load and a reshape. Did you need a fully automated script or is there only one file? If you're familiar with matlab at all there are a bunch of ways to turn that large column vector into a matrix.