How to delete header lines at the beginning and from the middle of a text file
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SAZZAD HOSSAIN
on 7 Apr 2018
Commented: Walter Roberson
on 10 Apr 2019
Hello
I have a text file which contains data in the following way -
Series_1_2
Sweep_1_2_1 5.362E+04 2018/04/03 14:53:42.633
"Index" "Time[s]" "Imon-1[A]" "Time[s]" "Emon-1[V]"
0 0 -9 0 4
1 1 -9 1 5
2 2 -8 2 5
3 3 -9 3 5
Sweep_1_2_2 5.364863300E+04 14:54:08.633 2018/04/03 14:53:42.633
"Index" "Time[s]" "Imon-1[A]" "Time[s]" "Emon-1[V]"
0 0 -9 0 4
1 1 -9 1 5
2 2 -8 2 5
3 3 -9 3 5
I want to delete all the extra header lines and the empty lines in there and just keep the 5 columns of data so it looks like
0 0 -9 0 4
1 1 -9 1 5
2 2 -8 2 5
3 3 -9 3 5
0 0 -9 0 4
1 1 -9 1 5
2 2 -8 2 5
3 3 -9 3 5
I tried using regexprep, but was not successful.
Thanks in advance.
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Walter Roberson
on 7 Apr 2018
S = fileread('YourFile.txt');
wanted = regexprep(S, {'^\S.*$\n','^$\n'}, {'',''}, 'lineanchors', 'dotexceptnewline');
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Swathi Putchakayala
on 10 Apr 2019
but i need only the rows and coloums of the above data. But not the whole thing in that document.
Walter Roberson
on 10 Apr 2019
Perhaps your input does not exactly match the one that I wrote this code for. I designed this code for the case where the unwanted lines all begin with a character that is not whitespace.
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