RE: Reading a file

[Pruitt Dave W Contr AEDC/SVT]

Thanks, that works very well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Luc Lefebvre [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:27 PM
To: Pruitt Dave W Contr AEDC/SVT
Subject: Re: Reading a file


Hi,

Have you tried reading each line as a string (with fgetl for example) and
then doing a split(line,"\t"), providing the data is tab delimited.  One
could then convert the third element to an integer str2num.

I had a go at it with the sample below (assuming tab delimited) and it
worked for me.



On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 18:38:26 +0000
Pruitt Dave W Contr AEDC/SVT <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sorry for the dumb question, but I'm stuck.
> 
> I need to read a file with records like:
> 
> filename1234  11:11   0   A
> filename5678  12:12   0   A
>                    .
>                    .
>                    .
> 
> I want to read the first element as a string ( to be used as a filename),
> the second element as a string to be parsed to hours and minutes, the
third
> element as an integer, and the fourth element as a simple character.
> 
> I've tried multiple constructions of fscanf and I just can't get it done.
> Not sure what I'm missing in my understanding of fscanf.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> David W. Pruitt, PhD
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