dpb
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Re: Help using textscan or sscanf
Posted:
Jan 17, 2013 2:23 PM
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On 1/17/2013 9:18 AM, dpb wrote:
> On 1/16/2013 4:33 PM, dpb wrote:
> ....
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>> The solution I gave reproduced your values for your sample set...
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> OBTW, NB "the trick" in the above solution--horzcat() or shorthand of
> [s1 s2] where s1,s2 are character arrays will transparently "eat"
> intervening blanks to create the shorter lengths automagically you're
> working so hard to create..."use the (hidden) force, Luke..." :)
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> That's what eliminates the need for all the string parsing and just lets
> it pick the last N desired characters--when were blank-filled and
> right-adjusted in strvcat(), then when the concatenation of the
> prepended string occurs, the spurious blanks go away on their own w/ no
> additional effort.
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And, if you have cell strings, then just use
strcat(c1,strtrim(c2))
where the c1,c2 are the two cell strings to squish together w/o
intervening spaces.
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