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"edward kabanyas" <djuky_hmi(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message <i216rk$e2o$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi friends !
>
> I want to read the following file (11-30-2006.dat) containing the data with the following structure:
>
> 14:27:00 .000 000.000 01** 4843 0065 0058 +26
> 14:28:00 .000 000.000 01** 4847 0071 0058 +26
> 14:29:00 R- .033 000.000 01** 4845 0090 0058 +25
> 14:30:00 R- .555 000.009 01** 4845 0145 0058 +25
> 14:31:00 R- 1.07 000.027 01** 4849 0197 0058 +25
> 14:32:00 R- 1.08 000.045 01** 4849 0198 0058 +25
> 14:33:00 R- .938 000.061 01** 4845 0184 0058 +25
> 14:34:00 R- .662 000.072 01** 4849 0157 0058 +25
> 14:35:00 R- .400 000.079 01** 4852 0126 0058 +25
>
> I read with as data = load('11-30-2006.dat'), but it didn't work because the uniform is not uniform.
>
> Do you have any better idea to read the file?
>
> Thanks very much for help.
>
> Regards;
> Edward

a hint:
- use TEXTREAD or TEXTSCAN to slurp the whole file into a CELLSTRING...
- use string functions, eg, STRFIND, STRCMP, REGEXP, to dissect your data...

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