specific text to excel
4 views (last 30 days)
Show older comments
I have several text files with diffrent file name, and I need to extract specific data from those text file and record it in excel. The sample text file is below. In each text file there are 1000 collapse multiplier value and they are both positive and negative values. I have to extract this 1000 data from multiple text file and record in a excel file. Each text file have 1000 data, so for 5 text file I need 5 columsns in excel. Please help to solve it.

0 Comments
Answers (1)
Walter Roberson
on 18 Aug 2021
filenames = {'T3.txt', 'shortrun.txt', 'scarecrow.txt', 'longrun.txt', 'T3b.txt'};
outfile = 'collapse.xlsx';
colnames = 'A':'Z'; %needs fixing if you have more than 26
for K = 1 : length(filenames)
thisfile = filenames{K};
S = fileread(thisfile);
collapses = str2double(regexp(S, '(?<=COLLAPSE MULTIPLIER =\s+)\S+', 'match'));
writematrix(collapses(:), outfile, 'range', colnames(K));
end
6 Comments
Walter Roberson
on 19 Aug 2021
Tested. Finishes in a small number of seconds.
I took the liberty of putting the file name as the column header.
dinfo = dir('*.txt');
filenames = {dinfo.name};
outfile = 'collapse.xlsx';
colnames = 'A':'Z'; %needs fixing if you have more than 26
for K = 1 : length(filenames)
thisfile = filenames{K};
[~, basename] = fileparts(thisfile);
S = fileread(thisfile);
CM = regexp(S, '^(COLLAPSE MULTIPLIER =\s+)(?<CM>\S+)', 'names', 'lineanchors');
collapses = [basename, num2cell(str2double({CM.CM}))].';
writecell(collapses, outfile, 'range', colnames(K) + "1");
end
See Also
Categories
Find more on Text Data Preparation in Help Center and File Exchange
Products
Community Treasure Hunt
Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!
Start Hunting!