How to read vector from .RTF file into MATLAB?

Hi MATLAB Central,

I have a very simply question - I would like to read a single row vector (called "cells_QC") from an .rtf file into MATLAB. My RTF file contains only something like:

cells_QC = [2,4,5,6,8,10,12,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21;];

In retrospect, I shouldn't have saved these vectors in .rtf. But now I have to parse through a bunch of folders and read them in. I attempted to use functions fopen, load and fscanf, but when read they just give a single number.

I would really appreciate any help with how to read this into MATLAB as a vector.

Thanks in advance,

Anders

Answer 1

[Anders]

After reading around, I actually found a solution. This might be not very elegant, but it works fine. I am just posting this in cases anyone else is interested. For "RTF_file path", give the file path for the RTF file.

fid = fopen(RTF_file_path);

%get each line in the file and run WHILE loop until you read the line with
%'cells_QC'
tline = fgetl(fid);
while ischar(tline)
    desired_line = strfind(tline, 'cells_QC');
    %If the desired line is found break the loop
    if desired_line
        break;
    end

      tline = fgetl(fid);
  end
  %Find beginning and end of the row_vector
  vector_left = find(tline == '['); vector_right = find(tline == ']');
  vector = tline(vector_left:vector_right);

%Convert from string to vector
cells_QC = str2num(vector);