textscan: skipping rows with missing data
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I'm using textscan() to open large txt files. Every so often I get a line where the value in the third column is missing, so everything gets shifted and text scan stops reading the data and just returns everything up until this point. The data kind of looks like this, although really it's 5 string columns followed by 30 double columns. It doesn't seem to want to preserve my formatting which would make it easier to see but I think this is still helpful
string string double double double
string double double double
string string double double double
string string double double double
string string double double double
Does anyone know a way to deal with that other than going in and manually deleting those incomplete lines from the individual text files?
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Thorsten
el 3 de Dic. de 2014
It would be helpful if you post your file, or at least some of the lines with the different number of columns.
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per isakson
el 2 de Dic. de 2014
Editada: per isakson
el 3 de Dic. de 2014
"columns are separated by tabs"
textscan should take care of missing data automagically!  Replace 'Delimiter', ',' by 'Delimiter', ','\t' in these examples
>> cac = textscan( 'abc,,1,2,3', '%s%s%f%f%f', 'Delimiter', ',' )
cac =
{1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} [1] [2] [3]
>> cac{2}
ans =
{''}
>>
and
>> cac = textscan( 'abc,def,1,,3', '%s%s%f%f%f', 'Delimiter', ',' )
cac =
{1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} [1] [NaN] [3]
 
"Then when there is the bad line it has tab+ a few spaces in place of the missing strings"
>> cac = textscan( 'abc, ,1,2,3', '%s%s%f%f%f', 'Delimiter', ',' )
cac =
{1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} [1] [2] [3]
>> cac{2}
ans =
{''}
and
>> cac = textscan( 'abc,def,1, ,3', '%s%s%f%f%f', 'Delimiter', ',' )
cac =
{1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} [1] [NaN] [3]
 
@Star's proposal: MultipleDelimsAsOne
>> textscan( 'a b c,d e f,1,2,3', '%s%s%s%s%s%s%f%f%f' ...
, 'Delimiter', ', ', 'MultipleDelimsAsOne', true )
ans =
Columns 1 through 6
{1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} {1x1 cell}
Columns 7 through 9
[1] [2] [3]
So far so good. However, with "b" missing
textscan( 'a c,d e f,1,2,3', '%s%s%s%s%s%s%f%f%f' ...
, 'Delimiter', ', ', 'MultipleDelimsAsOne', true )
ans =
Columns 1 through 6
{1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} {1x1 cell} {1x1 cell}
Columns 7 through 9
[2] [3] [0x1 double]
it returns an erroneous result
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per isakson
el 3 de Dic. de 2014
Editada: per isakson
el 3 de Dic. de 2014
Consider the strings containing space separated letters
'a b c'
' b c'
'a c'
one need additional information to be able to decide whether 'a' or 'b' is missing. That has little with limitations of Matlab to do.
Why don't you attach a small sample file.
Thorsten
el 2 de Dic. de 2014
I think that you have to read individual lines with fgets and then deal with the cases of missing values.
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