How to read a text file on a specific line having string and numeric data

Hi,

How can I read and convert data from a text file on specific lines to a matrix.

The file I have has several formats, for example:

    ................................................................
    .         .                .                      .            .
    .  POINT  .   COORDINATE   .    RATE VALUES       .   MEDIUM   .
    .         .                .                      .            .
    ................................................................
    .         .                .                      .    FA      .
    .     1   .       0.00     .    0.27504825E+13    .            .
    .     2   .      11.32     .    0.31004130E+13    .            .
    ----------------------------------------------------------------
    .         .                .                      .    FA      .
+   .     3   .      11.32     .    0.31004130E+13    .            .
    .     4   .      22.65     .    0.34565566E+13    .            .
    ----------------------------------------------------------------
    etc...

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You forgot to attach the file with the paper clip icon. Please do so.

You could read in a line at a time with fgetl() and, if the line does not contain an FA or -----, use strsplit() with that dot character as the delimiter to split up the line into 3 numbers.

[Yrobel Lima]

Thanks for your reply. I attached the file.

Regards.