Problem with textread reading complex data

Hello,

I try to have Matlab read data of the following structure:

    Elmt Mat    1-coord    2-coord    3-coord
              11-stress  22-stress  33-stress  12-stress  23-stress  31-stress
              11-strain  22-strain  33-strain  12-strain  23-strain  31-strain
               1-stress   2-stress   3-stress   1-strain   2-strain   3-strain
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
        6   1  2.151E+00  1.067E+01  2.662E+01
             -3.255E+01  1.091E+00  5.719E+01  1.348E+01 -6.564E+00  6.393E+00
              4.186E-01  4.586E-01 -3.131E-01  1.685E-01 -4.689E-03  5.327E-03
              5.821E+01  5.517E+00 -3.799E+01  6.083E-01  2.690E-01 -3.132E-01
        6   1  2.302E+00  1.142E+01  2.662E+01
             -6.642E+01 -1.567E+01  3.251E+01  1.357E+01 -1.212E+00  7.384E+00
              4.498E-01  4.562E-01 -3.157E-01  1.696E-01 -8.655E-04  6.154E-03
              3.306E+01 -1.228E+01 -7.036E+01  6.226E-01  2.835E-01 -3.157E-01
        7   1 -2.000E+00  9.920E+00  3.381E+00
              6.328E+00  1.939E+01  8.529E+01 -1.356E+01  1.200E+01  5.555E+00
              3.832E-01  4.603E-01 -3.100E-01 -1.695E-01  8.571E-03  4.629E-03
              8.754E+01  2.708E+01 -3.600E+00  5.956E-01  2.480E-01 -3.102E-01
      FEAP * * Bending an    Arc                                                         
     Element Stresses
     Elmt Mat    1-coord    2-coord    3-coord
              11-stress  22-stress  33-stress  12-stress  23-stress  31-stress
              11-strain  22-strain  33-strain  12-strain  23-strain  31-strain
               1-stress   2-stress   3-stress   1-strain   2-strain   3-strain
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
        5   1  7.778E+00 -7.778E+00  2.662E+01
              2.736E+01 -1.534E+00  1.104E+02 -1.688E+01 -1.146E+01 -1.998E+01
              3.505E-01  4.152E-01 -2.604E-01 -2.110E-01 -8.184E-03 -1.665E-02
              1.155E+02  3.305E+01 -1.227E+01  5.964E-01  1.701E-01 -2.612E-01

with textread. I want to read all blocks of the structure

5  1  -3.255E+01  1.091E+00  5.719E+01  1.348E+01 -6.564E+00  6.393E+00
            4.186E-01  4.586E-01 -3.131E-01  1.685E-01 -4.689E-03  5.327E-03
            5.821E+01  5.517E+00 -3.799E+01  6.083E-01  2.690E-01 -3.132E-01

,thus skipping the dashed lines and words like "FEAP * * Bending an Arc" and the header with "Elmt Mat 1-coord" and so on which all will appear repetedly and regularly in the file I want to read data from. I use the following command

[Element,Mat,coord1,coord1,coord3,... stress11,stress22,stress33,stress12,stress23,stress31,... strain11,strain22,strain33,strain12,strain23,strain31,... stress1,stress2,stress3,strain1,strain2,strain3] = textread('NONE035.txt', '%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f',... 'whitespace',' \b\t\n\r',... 'headerlines',row);

but will get the following error messages:

??? Trouble reading floating point number from file (row 26, field 13) ==> FEAP * * Bending an Arc

Error in ==> textread at 177 [varargout{1:nlhs}]=dataread('file',varargin{:});

Error in ==> Tension at 4 [Element,Mat,coord1,coord1,coord3,...

Is there anything obviously wrong with this approach? I appreciate any kind of help!

Thank you very much in advance and with kind regards,

Tetzlaff

Answer 1

[bym]

try

textscan()