Extracting specific column of values using regexp
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I am currently trying to extract the X, Y, Z values from a .txt file. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Guillaume
on 6 Sep 2016
Rather than a screenshot of a text file (with which we can't experiment), attach an actual file.
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Guillaume
on 6 Sep 2016
Your text file looks fairly ordinary. Matlab shouldn't have much problem importing using one of its many functions. Probably, the simplest would be to use readtable.
Without a file, I can't test but I believe
t = readtable('yourfile', 'HeaderLines, 1, 'Delimiter', 'tab')
should work, assuming you give it the right delimiter.
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Stephen23
on 6 Sep 2016
@Dhani Dharmaprani: it is usually much faster and simpler to read all of the data, and then use basic MATLAB indexing afterwards to select that data that you need.
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