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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thanks Amanda, that
helps.<br>
<br>
In the meantime I have found an alternate way by editing the text
file:<br>
Move the leading text lines to the end of the data colums.<br>
Append a hint after the first data line that there is information
below.<br>
Use <br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">x=read(file,r,c)</font><br>
where r and c define the row and colum number of the numerical
data.</font> That works even for my chaotic data format wherein
different numbers of blanks and tabs in each line separate the
data. <br>
<br>
Regards, Jens<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 03.03.2017 13:42, schrieb Amanda
Osvaldo:<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>if your data it's tabular, in another words, you can open it
in Excel or Libre Office Calc like you whant to do.</div>
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<div>You should be able to read in the same way with csvRead,
however you need to adjust the parameters</div>
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<div>Something like:</div>
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<pre style="overflow-x: auto; width: 1069.22px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="default">[</span><span class="default">M</span><span class="default">, </span><span class="default">comments</span><span class="default">] = </span><span class="functionid" style="font-weight: bold;">csvRead</span><span class="default">(</span><span class="default">'myfile.txt'</span><span class="default">, </span>' '<span class="default">, </span><span class="default">[]</span><span class="default">, </span><span class="default">[]</span><span class="default">, </span><span class="default">[]</span><span class="default">, </span><span class="default">[]</span><span class="default">, </span><span class="default">[]</span><span class="default">, </span><span class="default">5</span><span class="default">);</span></pre>
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<pre style="overflow-x: auto; width: 1069.22px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="default">Note that ' ' need to be the same separator in your text file.</span></pre>
<pre style="overflow-x: auto; width: 1069.22px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="default"><b>May be</b> it can be a TAB (the key in keyboard) or a simple space, you need try or open your file and check it.</span></pre>
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<pre style="overflow-x: auto; width: 1069.22px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="default">And the 5 value it's to ignore the first 5 lines.</span></pre>
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<pre style="overflow-x: auto; width: 1069.22px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="default"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.0.0/en_US/csvRead.html">https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.0.0/en_US/csvRead.html</a></span></pre>
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Is that what you are looking for ?</div>
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<div>-- Amanda Osvaldo<br>
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<div>On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 13:09 +0100, Jens Simon Strom wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite"> Hi, <br>
with<br>
<pre style="font-family:Monospaced;font-style:normal;font-size:13.0;"><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">x=read(file,-1,2)</font>
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I can read the data from a text file containing e. g. <br>
<br>
1 2.12 First line of text file<br>
2.12 3.2<br>
3 2<br>
4 2<br>
5 2.<br>
6 2<br>
7 2 <br>
Last line empty<br>
<br>
What can I do to read only the numbers from a text file like<br>
<br>
Header 1 First line of text file<br>
Header 2<br>
<br>
<br>
1 2.12<br>
2.12 3.2<br>
3 2<br>
4 2<br>
5 2.<br>
6 2<br>
7 2<br>
Last line empty <br>
<br>
where the data start in the 5th line?<br>
<br>
Regards, Jens<br>
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