Hello,

I am trying to use the textscan command to work a csv file we generate on a test stand.
First I have 115 strings as headers, for this I thought of:

C_text = textscan(fid, '%s', 115, 'delimiter', ',');

I need to ignore/erase the first two. I find it unpractical to write the 113 %s and the two %*s.
Any ideas?

Then I am thinking on getting the results (below each of the 113 strings) , strings and numbers, to start working on them for statistical analysis (histogram, percent failures, codes, etc). For this data, the first 4 are strings, then f f, then s,  f f f ..113th f.

Something like this:

'%s''%s''%s''%s''%f''%f''%s''%f''%f''%f''%f'...'%f'

I do not want to right down the hole chain, any ideas?

I am attaching the file so you can take a look. The final purpose is to pull each file for every day and not waste time trying to make the summary of the results.

I appreciate your help.
thanks
 

Found some code.
I will need to change the number of rows depending on the size of the file.

From the data already gathered, I am on a dilema, should I create a separate variable from each column to easly start plotting them or should I work out each of the variables at "data" ? Please take a look to the code and let me know your thoughts.  Is it possible to have at the x axis both date/time  and Serial Number (obviously, matched) ? how can I change the scale of the y axis ?


function data=dataimport
% Import data from DRC_50HP_Stand1_090406.csv
% Automatically generated 08-Apr-2009

% Define parameters
fileName='C:\Users\Robert\Documents\MATLAB\DRC_50HP_Stand1_090406.csv';
numHeaderLines=7;
formatString='%q%q%q%q%f%f%q%f%f%u64%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%u64%f%u64%f%f%f%f%u64%f%f%f%f%f%u64%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%u64%u64%u64%f%f%f%f%u64%f%f%f%f%f%u64%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f';
numRows=71;

% Read data from file
fid=fopen(fileName,'rt');
ignoreColumns=zeros(1,0);
columnHeaderRowNumber=4;
columnHeaderRowString=textscan(fid,'%s',1,'headerlines',columnHeaderRowNumber-1,'delimiter','\n');
columnHeaderRow=textscan(columnHeaderRowString{1}{1},repmat('%s',1,113),1,'delimiter',',');
columnNames=columnHeaderRow;
columnNames(ignoreColumns)=[];
dataCell=textscan(fid,formatString,numRows,'headerlines',numHeaderLines-columnHeaderRowNumber,'delimiter',',');

% Convert to 2D Cell
data=cell(numRows+1,length(dataCell)); %Preallocate
data(1,:)=columnNames; % Start with column names

for k=1:length(dataCell)
    if iscell(dataCell{k}) % If cell array of strings
        data(2:end,k)=dataCell{k};
    else % If numerical
        data(2:end,k)=mat2cell(dataCell{k},ones(numRows,1),1);
    end
end
status=fclose(fid);



I really appreciate your help, thanks