fscanfMat - Reads a Matrix from a text file.

Calling Sequence

M=fscanfMat(filename);

[M,text]=fscanfMat(filename);

Parameters

• filename : a character string giving the name of the file to be scanned.
• M : Output variable. A matrix of real numbers.
• text : Output variable. A string matrix.

Description

The fscanfMat function is used to read a scalar matrix from a text file. The first non-numeric lines of the file are returned in text if requested and all the remaining lines must have the same number of columns (column separator are assumed to be white spaces or tab characters). The number of columns of the matrix will follow the number of columns found in the file and the number of lines is fetched by detecting eof in the input file. This function can be used to read back numerical data saved with the fprintfMat.

Examples

fd=mopen(TMPDIR+'/Mat','w');
mfprintf(fd,'Some text.....\n');
mfprintf(fd,'Some text again\n');
a=rand(6,6);
for i=1:6 ,
 for j=1:6, mfprintf(fd,'%5.2f ',a(i,j));end;
 mfprintf(fd,'\n'); 
end
mclose(fd);
a1=fscanfMat(TMPDIR+'/Mat')
 

See Also

mclose  meof  mfprintf  fprintfMat  mfscanf  fscanfMat  mget  mgetstr  mopen  mprintf  mput  mputstr  mscanf  mseek  mtell