textscan for string with white spaces
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I use textscan to read in data from a file with the format as follows:
1790 2700 red blue white
2783 3185
4835 4849
4854 4865 blue white
fid = fopen(filename);
data = textscan(fid, '%d%d%s');
fclose(fid);
And would like my variable data consists of 3 cells, the first two cells that are integers and the last cell contains empty string or string with white spaces. I failed to produce the output after many attempts. Is there a better way to do that? Thanks.
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David Sanchez
on 12 Jul 2013
Try horzcat to concatenate strings with empty spaces. Example 1:
str_1 = 'test';
str_2 = ' '; % empty space
str_3 = 'something';
new_str = horzcat(str_1,str_2,str_3)
Example 2:
str_1 = 'test';
str_2 = ' something'; % empty space at the beginning
new_str = horzcat(str_1,str_2)
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