Matlab Muliple delimiter removing during import - matlab

Question

I am struggling with a problem and want a easy way around. I have a big array of data where I have some vector values as ( 1.02 1.23 3.32) format. I want it as 1.02 1.23 3.32 in a tabular form. The problem here is that there are two types of delimiter '(' and ')'.
can anyone help in writing a code for this? I have something like this:
filename = 'U.dat';
delimiterIn = '(';
headerlinesIn = 0;
A = textscan(filename,delimiterIn,headerlinesIn);
But one thing is that it only have one delimiter "(" and it does not work either.
Nishant

Answer 1

If your text file looks something like this:
(1 2 3) (4 5 6)
(7 8 9) (10 11 12)
You can read it in as strings and convert it to a cell array of vectors like this:
% read in file
clear all
filename = 'delim.txt';
fid = fopen(filename); %opens file for reading
tline = fgets(fid); %reads in a line
index = 1;
%reads in all lines until the end of the file is reached
while ischar(tline)
data{index} = tline;
tline = fgets(fid);
index = index + 1;
end
fclose(fid); %close file
% convert strings to a cell array of vectors
rowIndex = 1;
colIndex = 1;
outData = {};
innerStr = [];
for aCell = data % for each entry in data
sline = aCell{1,1};
for c = sline % for each charecter in the line
if strcmp(c, '(')
innerStr = [];
elseif strcmp(c, ')')
outData{rowIndex,colIndex} = num2str(innerStr);
colIndex = colIndex + 1;
else
innerStr = [innerStr, c];
end
end
rowIndex = rowIndex + 1;
colIndex = 1;
end
outData