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i am using the following code to get the .txt file from any location
a1 = uigetfile('../Data/*.txt');
fid = fopen(a1,'r+');
i am able to select .txt files which are present only in matlab working folder. if i place the same file on desktop and try to select it i get an error as shown below
Error using textscan
Invalid file identifier. Use fopen to generate a valid file identifier.
Error in text_fin1 (line 7)
c = textscan(fid,'%d64%f64%s%s%d64%d64%d64%d64%d64','delimiter',
';','HeaderLines',256);
please let me know why i have this error, how to remove it

Answers (1)

Jan
Jan on 20 Feb 2013
Edited: Jan on 20 Feb 2013
uigetfile replies the path and the file name. You have to use both to address your file:
[filename, pathname] = uigetfile('*.txt');
fid = fopen(fullfile(pathname, filename), 'r+');
Otherwise Matlab searches the file in the current folder. For fopen(name, 'r') Matlab would even search in the complete Matlab path, which might lead to very unexpected effects. But fortunately the write-permissions triggered by 'r+' let fopen be less smart.
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shanmukh
shanmukh on 20 Feb 2013
i used the following code
a1 = uigetfile('*.txt');
fid = fopen(fullfile(a1), 'r+');
no use it gives me the same error

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