Reading parameters from a text file into the workspace

Hi, I have a .txt file which has the following information:

'space'Total = 123

I would like to read some of this information into MATLAB. I tried using the following program to import the data but since there is a space before the line starts, i am not able to read the data.

fid = fopen(filename);
C = textscan(fid, '%s', 'Delimiter', '', 'CommentStyle', '%');
fclose(fid);
Total = C{2}(strcmp(C{1}, 'Total'));

could you please help me.

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

There are many ways you could do what you want. The way I'd do it:

filecontent = fileread(filename);
paramvalues = regexp(filecontent, '^\s*(\w+)\s*=\s*(\w+)\s*$', 'tokens', 'lineanchors');
paramvalues = vertcat(paramvalues{:});

Which should return a Nx2 cell array of parameter names (1st column) and values (2nd column), if I've not made a mistake in the regex.