How to read 16-bit text with Matlab
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I have an Agilent 34970A data logger with their BenchLink software. This puts out a .csv file that Excel reads with no trouble. But Matlab cannot import it because it's 16 bit text. The first two bytes are 0xFF 0xFE, then after that every text byte is followed by a NULL (0x00). I wrote a function to read it, but I was hoping for the ability to read it directly, without having to programmatically skip the NULLs.
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Walter Roberson
on 1 Mar 2016
MATLAB does not handle UTF-16LE files. You might wish to use the source code I posted in http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/267176-read-and-seperate-csv-data#answer_209938 which reads csv files from any of the UTF-8 / UTF-16 / UTF-32 encodings
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keldstefan
on 20 May 2022
Very nice Walter ;)
Does anybody know how to deactivate the warning?
"Warning: The encoding 'XXXXXXX' is not supported.
See the documentation for FOPEN."
I am reading several hundreds of these files, I'd like to remove this output from the console...
Les Beckham
on 20 May 2022
Edited: Les Beckham
on 20 May 2022
To disable the warning, issue the following command after you receive that warning:
[msg, id] = lastwarn;
Then, disable the warning as follows:
warning('off', id)
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