how to delete header and footer from dat. file?

Hi!

I have 5000 dat. file. Each file have 3 header and 3 footer. I need to delete header and footer from each file and then save it again as dat. file.

Can anybody kindly tell me what is the procedure.

Regards

Mainul

Answer 1

[Orion]

Hi,

i guess you need more or less this kind of code :

for i = 1:5000
    FileToRewrite = ['DatFile_' num2str(i) '.dat'];

      % phase 1 : read the ith dat file
      fid = fopen(FileToRewrite,'r');
      TextDat = textscan(fid,'%s','delimiter','\n');
      fclose(fid);

      % phase 2 : just take from the 4th line (3 headers) until the end-3
      % (3 footers)
      NewTextDat = TextDat{1}(3+1:end-3);

      % phase 3 : rewrite the file with the new data
      fid = fopen(FileToRewrite,'wt');
      fprintf(fid,'%s\n',NewTextDat{:});
      fclose(fid);
  end

Big Warning : once you run this code, all you .dat files will be rewritten. think to make copies of your originals, in case there is a bug.

[Mainul Hoque]

Hi Orion,

Thank you very much for your answer. It's really helpful and work very well.

Cheers!!!!

Mainul