Hello
I have a dump output from another program. A short example of which is below
ITEM: TIMESTEP
1000
ITEM: BOUNDS
0 10
0 10
0 10
ITEM
id type xs ys zs
1 1 0.1 0.1 0.2
3 1 0.5 0.5 0.4
2 1 0.2 0.3 0.4
ITEM: TIMESTEP
2000
ITEM: BOUNDS
....
it then repeats within the same file for other timesteps. I want it to search for a specific timestep within the file (say 1000), then skip down to 'id type xs ys zs' and save the values xs,ys,zs into a (n,3) array. It would need to stop reading when it detects that the line is no longer numeric.
To me this seems like a simple problem, but it appears that matlaab can only read in full files, as I cannot find a 'skip x lines' function, or 'find value in text file' option. Does matlab keep this behind the scenes and not have it as an option for users?
Jay
I have a dump output from another program. A short example of which is below
ITEM: TIMESTEP
1000
ITEM: BOUNDS
0 10
0 10
0 10
ITEM
id type xs ys zs
1 1 0.1 0.1 0.2
3 1 0.5 0.5 0.4
2 1 0.2 0.3 0.4
ITEM: TIMESTEP
2000
ITEM: BOUNDS
....
it then repeats within the same file for other timesteps. I want it to search for a specific timestep within the file (say 1000), then skip down to 'id type xs ys zs' and save the values xs,ys,zs into a (n,3) array. It would need to stop reading when it detects that the line is no longer numeric.
To me this seems like a simple problem, but it appears that matlaab can only read in full files, as I cannot find a 'skip x lines' function, or 'find value in text file' option. Does matlab keep this behind the scenes and not have it as an option for users?
Jay
