How to use a variable as an 'importdata' string
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The following line works fine.
unformatteddata = importdata('neutral.prf', DELIMITER, HEADERLINES);
When I make a variable with 'neutral.prf' as the string, importdata (the last line) fails to find the file.
prf_name= 'neutral';
prf_ext = '.prf';
prf_string(1,1) = strcat(prf_name, prf_ext);
unformatteddata = importdata(prf_string(1,1), DELIMITER, HEADERLINES);
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Prasanth Sunkara
on 25 Jul 2017
Hi Alex,
The issue is not with the "importdata" function.
The below command which you used to concatenate the two char arrays should throw a Dimension mismatch error.
>> prf_string(1,1) = strcat(prf_name, prf_ext);
I do not see the need to use array indexing here.
Just use,
>> prf_string = strcat(prf_name, prf_ext);
I believe that would solve your issue.
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