Re: Reading specific lines (with some frequency) with textscan

On Monday, July 1, 2013 9:59:09 AM UTC+12, Negin Nazarian wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I have an ascii file that I need to process. It is in this format:
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> "
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> "Surface Integral Report"
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> Area-Weighted Average
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> Radiation Heat Flux (w/m2)
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> -------------------------------- --------------------
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> wall 34.189476
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> wall_aw 28.288052
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> ---------------- --------------------
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> Net 34.208313
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> Area-Weighted Average
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> Radiation Heat Flux (w/m2)
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> -------------------------------- --------------------
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> wall 34.324566
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> wall_aw 28.363642
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> ---------------- --------------------
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> Net 34.345776
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> "
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> and the file has more than 1000 of this sets but all I need is the "Net" values. How can I use textscan in a way that reads the file and only make an array of Net values?
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> Any help is appreciated.
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> Cheers,
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> Negin

One way is to read all the lines in as strings:
c=textscan(fid,'%s');
then to look for the lines with Net in them:
indx=strmatch('Net',c{1});
and process those to extract the numbers using str2num