I previously posted on how to display and access structure array content. The file consisted of states, capitals, and populations. Now I'm having trouble in created a new structure by organizing these states in alphabetical order. I did this by the sortrows function, and I tried pairing up the values of population and the capitals with the alphabetical states, but I can't seem to get it to be an array. I want it to be an array so I can write it to a file. This is what I have so far:
fid=fopen('Regions_list.txt')
file=textscan(fid,'%s %s %f','delimiter',',')
State=file{1}
Capital=file{2}
Population=num2cell(file{3})
sortedStates=sortrows(State)
n=length(State)
regions=struct('State',State,...
'Capital',Capital,...
'Population',Population)
for k=1:n;
region=sortedStates(k);
state_name={regions.State};
state_reference=strcmpi(state_name,region);
state_info=regions(state_reference)
end
I hope I'm making myself clear.
Use this to sort the cell array read in (no conversion needed), then write to file with this.
With respect to your sorting issue, The function SORT will return as its second output a sort index which can be used to apply the same sort order to other arrays. For example, you could sort your arrays before you create your structure array:
[sortedStates,sortIndex] = sort(State);
regions = struct('State',sortedStates,...
'Capital',Capital(sortIndex),...
'Population',Population(sortIndex));
Or you could apply your sorting after you create your structure array:
regions = struct('State',State,...
'Capital',Capital,...
'Population',Population);
[~,sortIndex] = sort({regions.State});
regions = regions(sortIndex);
However, I'm not sure what you mean when you say "I want it to be an array so I can write to a file."
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I have large data sets which i want to work with in matlab.
I have a struct called Trail containing serveral structures called trail1, trail2 ...
which then contain several matrices. I now want to add another point to for instance trail1
I can do that with Trail.trail1.a2rotated(i,:) = rotpoint'; the problem is that i have to do it in a loop where the trail number as well as the a2rotated changes to e.g. a3rot...
I tired to do it like that
name ="trail"+num2str(z)+".a2rotated"+"("+i+",:)";
name = convertStringsToChars(name);
Trail.(name) = rotpoint'
But that gives me the error: Invalid field name: 'trail1.a2rotated(1,:)'.
Does someone have a solution?
The name in between brackets after the dot must be the name of a field of the struct. Other indexing operations must be done separately:
Trail.("trail"+z).a2rotated(i,:)
But you might be better off making trail(z) an array instead of separate fields with a number in the name.
I am dynamically storing data from different data recorders in timetables, nested in a structure DATA, such as DATA.Motor (timetable with motor data), DATA.Actuators (timetable with actuators data) and so on.
My objective is to have a function that synchronizes and merges these timetables so I can work with one big timetable.
I am trying to use synchronize to merge and synchronize those timetables:
fields = fieldnames(DATA);
TT = synchronize(DATA.(fields{1:end}));
but get the following error:
Expected one output from a curly brace or dot indexing expression, but there were 3 results.
This confuses me because DATA.(fields{1}) return the timetable of the first field name of the DATA structure.
Any thought on how I can solve this is greatly appreciated.
The problem here is that fields{1:end} is returning a "comma-separated list", and you're not allowed to use one of those as a struct dot-index expression. I.e. it's as if you tried the following, which is not legal:
DATA.('Motor','Actuators')
One way to fix this is to pull out the values from DATA into a cell array, and then you can use {:} indexing to generate the comma-separated list as input to synchronize, like this:
DATA = struct('Motor', timetable(datetime, rand), ...
'Actuators', timetable(datetime, rand));
DATA_c = struct2cell(DATA);
TT = synchronize(DATA_c{:});
In my code, I have a structure and in a field of it, I want to sort its values.
For instance, in the field of File_Neg.name there are the following values, and They should be sorted as the right values.
File_Neg.name --> Sorted File_Neg.name
'-10.000000.dcm' '-10.000000.dcm'
'-102.500000.dcm' '-12.500000.dcm'
'-100.000000.dcm' '-100.000000.dcm'
'-107.500000.dcm' '-102.500000.dcm'
'-112.500000.dcm' '-107.500000.dcm'
'-110.000000.dcm '-110.000000.dcm'
'-12.500000.dcm' '-112.500000.dcm'
There is a folder that there are some pictures with negative labels in it (above example are labels of pictures). I want to get them in the same order as present in the folder(that's mean the Sorted File_Neg.name). But when running the following code the values of Files_Neg.name load as the above example (left: File_Neg.name), while I want the right form.
I have also seen this and that but they didn't help me.
How to sort values of a field in a structure in Matlab?
Files_Neg = dir('D:\Rename-RealN');
File_Neg = dir(strcat('D:\Rename-RealN\', Files_Neg.name, '\', '*.dcm'));
% when running the code the values of Files_Neg.name load as the above example (left: File_Neg.name)
File_Neg.name:
This answer to one of the questions linked in the OP is nearly correct for the problem in the OP. There are two issues:
The first issue is that the answer assumes a scalar value is contained in the field to be sorted, whereas in the OP the values are char arrays (i.e. old-fashioned strings).
This issue can be fixed by adding 'UniformOutput',false to the arrayfun call:
File_Neg = struct('name',{'-10.000000.dcm','-102.500000.dcm','-100.000000.dcm','-107.500000.dcm','-112.500000.dcm','-110.000000.dcm','-12.500000.dcm'},...
'folder',{'a','b','c','d','e1','e2','e3'});
[~,I] = sort(arrayfun(#(x)x.name,File_Neg,'UniformOutput',false));
File_Neg = File_Neg(I);
File_Neg is now sorted according to dictionary sort (using ASCII letter ordering, meaning that uppercase letters come first, and 110 still comes before 12).
The second issue is that OP wants to sort according to the magnitude of the number in the file name, not using dictionary sort. This can be fixed by extracting the value in the anonymous function applied using arrayfun. We use str2double on the file name, minus the last 4 characters '.dcm':
[~,I] = sort(arrayfun(#(x)abs(str2double(x.name(1:end-4))),File_Neg));
File_Neg = File_Neg(I);
Funnily enough, we don't want to use 'UniformOutput',false any more, since the anonymous function now returns a scalar value.
I'm relatively new to matlab and would really appreciate any help.
Currently, I have a function (we'll call it readf) that reads in data from a single ascii file into a struct of multiple fields (we'll call it cdata).
names = cellstr(char('A','B','C','D','E','F','G'));
cdata = readf('filestring','dataNames',names);
The function works fine and gives me the correct output of a struct with these field names, with the value of each field name being a cell array of the corresponding data.
My task is to create a for loop that uses this readf function to read in a folder of these ascii files at once. I'm trying to work it so that the for loop creates a struct with an index of the different cdata structs. After trying a few different methods, I am stumped.
This is what I have so far.
files = struct2cell(dir('folderstring')); %creates a cell array of the names of the files withing the folder
for ii=length(files);
cdata(ii) = readf([folderstring,files(1,1:ii),names],'dataName',names);
end;
This is currently giving me the following error.
"Error using horzcat
Dimensions of matrices being concatenated are not consistent."
I am not sure what is wrong. How can I fix this code so i can read in all the data from a folder at once??? Is there a better and more efficient way to do this than making an index to this struct? Perhaps a cell array of different structures or even a structure of nested structures? Thanks!
Change:
for ii=length(files);
cdata(ii) = readf([folderstring,files(1,1:ii),names],'dataName',names);
end;
To:
for ii=1:length(files); % CHECK to make sure length(files) is giving you the right number
cdata(ii) = readf([folderstring,files{ii},names],'dataName',names);
end;
% CHECK files{ii}, with 1,2,3 etc. is giving you the correct file name.
I have a matlab code which is for printing a cell array to excel. The size of matrix is 50x13.
The row 1 is the column names.
Column 1 is dates and rest columns are numbers.
The dateformat being defined in the code is:
dFormat = struct;
dFormat.Style = struct( 'NumberFormat', '_(* #,##0.00_);_(* (#,##0.00);_(* "-"??_);_(#_)' );
dFormat.Font = struct( 'Size', 8 );
Can someone please explain me what the dFormat.Style code means ?
Thanks
The first line creates an empty struct (struct with no fields) called dFormat. A structure can contain pretty much anything in one of its fields, including another structure. The second line adds a field called 'Style' to the dFormat struct and sets it equal to another struct with a field called 'NumberFormat'. The 'NumberFormat' field is set equal to that long string of characters. You now have a structure of structures. The third line is similar to the second.
Note that the first line isn't really necessary unless dFormat already exists and it needs to be "zeroed out" as dFormat.Style with create it implicitly. However, using the struct function can make code more readable in some cases as objects use a similar notation for access methods and properties. In other words, all of your code could be replaced with:
dFormat.Style.NumberFormat = '_(* #,##0.00_);_(* (#,##0.00);_(* "-"??_);_(#_)';
dFormat.Font.Size = 8;
See this video from the MathWorks for more details and this list of helpful structure functions and examples.
#horchler already elaborated on structs, but I imagine you may actually be more interested in the content of this structs Style field.
In case you are solely interested in _(* #,##0.00_);_(* (#,##0.00);_(* "-"??_);_(#_), that does not really look like something MATLAB related to me.
My best guess is that this code is used to later feed some other program, for examle to build an excel file.