replacing numbers with alphabets/letters in a matrix
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ANINDYA GANGULY
on 8 Nov 2021
Commented: ANINDYA GANGULY
on 8 Nov 2021
I have a excel sheet (attached file) consiting of 4000 numbers (1 to 4000). I want to replace 1, 5, 9 ...3997 and 2, 6, 10...3998 with C and 3, 7, 11...3999 and 4,8, 12...4000 with H. Can a code be devised where this task can be performed such that the output file/data is represented in the same array/format as the given input? And can the code be made universal so that we can carry forth similar tasks with other arrays?
Looking forward for an answer and thank you for all your help.
Regards
J
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Akira Agata
on 8 Nov 2021
One possible straight-forward solution would be like this:
M = readmatrix('testfile_0.50.xlsx');
C = cell(size(M));
idx = ismember(M,[1:4:3997, 2:4:3998]);
C(idx) = {'C'};
idx = ismember(M,[3:4:3999, 4:4:4000]);
C(idx) = {'H'};
writecell(C,'output.xlsx');
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Walter Roberson
on 8 Nov 2021
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 8 Nov 2021
filename = 'https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/793759/testfile_0.50.xlsx';
outfile = "testout.xlsx";
data = readmatrix(filename);
newdata = cell(size(data));
mask = isnan(data);
newdata(mask) = {nan};
mask = ismember(mod(data,4), [1 2]);
newdata(mask) = {'C'};
mask = ismember(mod(data,4), [3 0]);
newdata(mask) = {'H'};
writecell(newdata, outfile);
%testing to see if the output looks ok
readback = readtable(outfile);
readback(10:20,:)
I tested on my system, and excel does show those 0x0 char and NaN entries as empty cells.
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