Re: textread issue

[Markus Bergholz]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:03 PM, PhilipNienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:

snaucler wrote
> I am using Octave-3.6.4 vs2010.  have recently (last week) installed the
> I/O package.
>
> I am trying to read data from a csv file. Below is a snippet of that file
> I am currently working with.
>
> Chan ID,Chann Name,Slope,Offset
> R01,Blade 1 Edge,1.234,4.567
> R02,Blade 1 Flap,2.345,5.678
> R03,Blade 2 Edge,3.456,6.789

octave:1> system('cat help.txt')

Chan ID,Chann Name,Slope,Offset

R01,Blade 1 Edge,1.234,4.567

R02,Blade 1 Flap,2.345,5.678

R03,Blade 2 Edge,3.456,6.789

ans = 0

octave:2> f=fopen('help.txt')

f =  3

octave:3>  textscan(f,'%s %s %f %f','delimiter',',','HeaderLines',1)

ans = 

{

  [1,1] = 

  {

    [1,1] = R01

    [2,1] = R02

    [3,1] = R03

  }

  [1,2] = 

  {

    [1,1] = Blade 1 Edge

    [2,1] = Blade 1 Flap

    [3,1] = Blade 2 Edge

  }

  [1,3] =

     1.2340

     2.3450

     3.4560

  [1,4] =

     4.5670

     5.6780

     6.7890

}

octave:4> fclose(f)

ans = 0

 

>
>  Here is the line of code I am using:
> chanName = textread('Cal_Spreadsheet.csv','%s %s %d
> %d','delimiter',',','headliner',1)

"headliner" ?  make that "headerlines" and try again.

In addition I suspect you might need "whitespace", ""  in the argument list
as well (not sure).

BTW your example becomes much more readable if you add a few spaces here and
there, e.g. between arguments and between function name and parens.

Philip




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