ascii data type

i am making a program that needs to import data from a elcomat 2000 into a matlab workspace. teh data type i get is an ascii type. how would i convert an ascii type to a decimal? i am using the fread command to read data from the instrument.

Answer 1

[Rob Graessle]

Since ASCII characters are encoded as unsigned 8-bit integers, you can store them as a UINT8 data type in MATLAB. You can use the UINT8 function to get the ASCII values of a character string.

>> a='ABCabc!@#$%^&*()-+'

a =

ABCabc!@#$%^&*()-+

>> uint8(a)

ans =

     65   66   67   97   98   99   33   64   35   36   37   94   38   42   40   41   45   43

[Walter Roberson]

Only if it is US-ASCII ;-)

There were a number of different ASCII. For example, in the UK version of ASCII, the position held by '$' is the pound sign.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Possibly the answer you are looking for is str2double()