I need help to convert ascii data matrices to complex data matrices

Dear All,

I need some help to convert data stored in a file that is in ascii format. The data I have looks like as below:

{{'1930+5263i<E>' '3930+5563i<E>' '1930+5263i<E>' '3930+5563i<E>'} {'1930+5263i<E>' '3930+5563i<E>' '1930+5263i<E>' '3930+5563i<E>'}}

What I want to do is convert this to a cell matrix containing of matrix whis in turn contain of complex valued data as given below:

{[1930+5263i 3930+5563i 1930+5263i 3930+5563i] [1930+5263i 3930+5563i 1930+5263i 3930+5563i]}

I have tried to do a parser based on state machine that remove '<E>' but I stucked in my mind so I wonder if there is some simple method to do that with matlab commands.

Thanks and all the best,

Michael Numminen

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

cellfun(@(C) str2double(C(1:end-3)), YourCell)

Answer 2

[Andrei Bobrov]

z ={{'1930+5263i<E>' '3930+5563i<E>' '1930+5263i<E>' '3930+5563i<E>'} {'1930+5263i<E>' '3930+5563i<E>' '1930+5263i<E>' '3930+5563i<E>'}}

cellfun(@(x)str2double(regexprep(x,'<E>','')),z,'un',0)