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Help using textscan on a .dat file
Either just use *fgetl* on each line and test for the end line characteristic string, parsing each line and building the arrray ...

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How to create a series of variables of data?
What error(s), specifically are you getting (iow, what _precisely_ what does "not working" mean? It's somewhat simpler imo to...

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How to remove unwanted X from Xdata
idx=find(B2>=0.25,1,'last'); plot(A2(1:idx),B2(1:idx))

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Convert Integer Array to Binary Array
Using builtins w/o mod/rem to separate digits... >> dec2bin(str2num(sprintf('%d',x).')) ans = 011 010 001 111 110 01...

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How can i reshape a 20370x1 matrix into 2037x10x1?
All arrays in Matlab have implied but not explicit unity dimensions in higher dimensions; you can refer to the array with the th...

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Why does uigetfile return a different data type for filename depending upon the number of files selected?
Why? "Because" is the only answer that matters. It _is_ documented behavior. While it is something of a pit(proverbial)a(pp...

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Overwriting a vector to a specific location into CSV file
If you have the spreadsheet 'Sheet1', use *xlswrite*. You can't do this directly in a .csv file without dealing with a lot of i...

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Plotting with 2 different axes but same scale
OK, what I'd probably do is start with *plotyy* and save the handles to the two axes so you can more easily modify them a little...

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xlabel in box plot
Like text([2.5:4:12].',-0.1*ones(3,1),['X';'Y';'Z'],'horizontal','center') maybe?

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I am getting an error "Cell contents reference from a non-cell array object"
The short answer is don't use the curly braces around the '1' but what is MVF intended to be? The LHS variable name makes it lo...

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Ingesting fractional second timestamps
I think you're mistaking the happenstance of the value with the formatting--Matlab will import the full precision of the value a...

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How do I create a legend that explaines scatter plot by marker size
"Use the handles, Luke..." :) If you save the handles to the scatter points, you can write a legend for those specific poin...

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How to reorder legend items individually in plotyy in a subplot
From help legend ... legend(H,string1,string2,string3, ...) puts a legend on the plot containing the handles i...

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Can I download built-in Matlab functions somewhere?
Nope, only upgrading to a release which includes it (or, in some cases, there are File Exchange submissions which provide the fu...

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How to call a function with a char variable
Don't do this!!! Use *save/load* or some other form instead. If you think you really, really _must_ do this for some reason,...

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how to overwrite a certain value in input file(inp)
The short answer is "you can't" -- sequential files are, well, "sequential"; whatever you write other than appending to the end ...

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Help plotting two y labels
How about instead of using another axes and futzing with *legend* hTx1=text(18,-0.2,'Downwelling','horizontalalign','right'...

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Why does it appear "Error: Function definitions are not permitted in this context" when I run the following function file?
As the error says, you can't directly execute an m-file which defines a function; you _Call_ the function from a script or anoth...

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edit txt file but save previous data
_" If filename is the name of an existing text file, then writetable overwrites the file."_ You can't with it. Since *writet...

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Cycle line type before color type on plot?
I don't believe that level of customization is available--you can change the line and color orders but don't believe there's any...

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Does Matlab resize vectors automatically
Yes, Matlab automagically reallocates storage on assignment any and every time it needs to. This includes, obviously, the chang...

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Matrix operation without for loop
>> T=ones(3); >> a=1:3;a=a(:); >> out=bsxfun(@rdivide,T,a) out = 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000 0.5000 0.5000 0...

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Saving multiple output in one variable from loop
OK, as per the comment, firstly, you're computing the _n_ moving average m*n times...move it out of the loop over which it's inv...

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dlmread with ^ as delimiter
_"Trouble reading number from file (row 1u, field 1u) ==>rssd9999^rssd9001^BHCK0081^BHCK0395^..."_ >> help dlmread dlmrea...

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How to find the sum of each element of a matrix?
If _x_ is the array, xsum=sum(x(:)); % ":" is a Matlab idiom that returns all elements in a column vector

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Plot two Y-Axis, multiple lines on the second from line-fitted points and call out only the fitted lines in the legend
_"I cannot use plotyy because these are points."_ Of course you can... [hA,hL,hR]=plotyy(x1,y1,x2,y2,@plot,@scatter); ...

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How to convert string to filename when MATLAB is unable to identify the file ext?
Your first attempt will create a filename that has '...spot 1\0\\.raw' as the ending string which, I'm sure isn't the file name...

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Write a matrix of strings to text file:
_" I get error "Error using fprintf Function is not defined for 'cell' inputs."_ Yes. Cast the cell content to char() when w...

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MATLAB generated m-code's importdata function
It's not clear how many of the blank lines are fignewtons of the display/posting formatting and how many are real; the count of ...

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Using reshape to get a block averaging of data when it is not divisible by the block?
Just use modulo arithmetic to compute the block size and remainder... L=size(x,1); % array length N=n*fix(L/n); % N ...

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