Problem with reading files in Matlab

reading files matlab

Hi,

I have a formatted data file (obtained from fortran) which has 1 column and 24000 rows. The values are like

-0.8736252526127E-9
-0.1928287267367E-11
0.28373737626278E-12
etc etc.

I have tried to read these data in matlab using the following command :

fid=fopen('filename');
[b,count]=fscanf(fid,'%25f',[1,inf]);
fclose(fid);

I have tried with %g as well as the format specifier. Then I have also tried to use 'load' command of matlab. In all the cases I end up with wrong values of the data in the vector. I get somethiing like 0.0001, -0.0005, 0.003, etc .... These are far larger values compared to those in the source file.

Can anyone advise me - how I can read those data successfully in matlab.
Thank you.

read in data file in matlab

confi999 said:

Hi,

I have a formatted data file (obtained from fortran) which has 1 column and 24000 rows. The values are like

-0.8736252526127E-9
-0.1928287267367E-11
0.28373737626278E-12
etc etc.

I have tried to read these data in matlab using the following command :

fid=fopen('filename');
[b,count]=fscanf(fid,'%25f',[1,inf]);
fclose(fid);

I have tried with %g as well as the format specifier. Then I have also tried to use 'load' command of matlab. In all the cases I end up with wrong values of the data in the vector. I get somethiing like 0.0001, -0.0005, 0.003, etc .... These are far larger values compared to those in the source file.

Can anyone advise me - how I can read those data successfully in matlab.
Thank you.

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try execute the following command before reading the text file

>> format long

that might help.

reading file in matlab

Thank you for the reply - that really helped to some extent. But,

some of the data from my file are like:
-9.822387897877512E-009
-8.718508242883641E-009
-7.412423106618656E-009
-6.024806197201503E-009
-4.681798286449183E-009
-3.482646037397550E-009
-2.479999539418316E-009
-1.677888998136245E-009


and after reading matlab is showing these as

-0.000982238789788
-0.000871850824288
-0.000741242310662
-0.000602480619720
-0.000468179828645
-0.000348264603740
-0.000247999953942
-0.000167788899814

So all the data seem to be read as *******E-04 instead of *******E- 09

Can anyone help me overcome this. Thank you very much.