How to make a 2D graph from text file

Asked by Dennis Wikan on 4 Apr 2017

Latest activity Edited by Joseph Cheng on 5 Apr 2017

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I want the x-axis to represent the time and the y-axis to represent pressure. This is what I am working with now: fid=fopen('1.sec.txt','rt') for i=1:2, fgetl(fid),end M = dlmread('1.sec.txt',';',4,0) A=fscanf(fid,'%f',[2,inf])'; fclose(fid) subplot(2,1,1) plot(A(:,1),A(:,2))

And this is the error message the program gives me: Index exceeds matrix dimensions.

Error in txtfiltest (line 7) plot(A(:,1),A(:,2))

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Answer by Joseph Cheng on 5 Apr 2017

Edited by Joseph Cheng on 5 Apr 2017

I can point out a few things.

if you look at M isn't that what you're trying to plot with A? as it should include both columns of data.
your fscanf starts off at with a row of t;p which it doesn't recognize.

fid=fopen('test.txt','rt') 
for i=1:4, fgetl(fid),end 
M = dlmread('test.txt',';',4,0) 
A=fscanf(fid,'%f;%f',[2,inf])'; 
fclose(fid) 
subplot(2,1,1),plot(A(:,1),A(:,2))

the above code is rigged with a test case i ran of a similar file like your picture. so instead of just 2 fgetl's i do 4 to get the position in the file to the starting point of the data. Also I put the ';%f' in there as i do not think it recognizes ';' as a deliminator. I cannot find the documentation but from the examples of fscanf i think it is looking for a \tab. Hopefully someone comes along and corrects me on that

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