how to made a ".mat" file from ".txt"

the ".txt" file's content is as below:

Date--------OpenPrice------HighPrie-----LowPrice----ClosePrice------Volume

2012/3/8----6.18-------------6.28-----------5.68-----------6.09-----89573650

2012/3/9----6.01-------------6.21-----------5.95-----------6.03----895738396

2012/3/12--6.03-------------6.09-----------5.87-----------6.89----895738698

2012/3/13--5.9--------------6.16------------5.9------------6.04-----895738356

Just now I load "disney.mat" in matlab conmmand window and I find that there are 8 variables in total as below:

dis     <782 X 5 fints>

dis_CLOSE     <782 X 1 double>  NaN

dis_HIGH     <782 X 1 double>  NaN

dis_LOW     <782 X 1 double>  NaN

dis_OPEN     <782 X 1 double>  NaN

dis_VOLUME     <782 X 1 double>  NaN

dis_nv     <782 X 4 fints> 

q_dis     <13 X 4 fints>  NaN

how can I get '.mat'like this

[Walter Roberson]

Are those "--" actually present, or do they represent spaces?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You cannot get that desired output from that input. You have matches for dis_CLOSE, dis_HIGH, dis_LOW, dis_OPEN, and dis_VOLUME, which leaves only the one column "Date" to account for dis (which has 5 items of information per line) and dis_nv (which has 4 items of information per row) and q_dis (which has a completely different number of rows than anything else.)

[vx2008]

Thank you for your commence.

In the fact, just now I execute code

Load 'disney.mat';
candle(dis('3/31/98::4/10/98'))

shall I? thanks.

then i get a good chart.

Now I just have a "abc.txt" file as above and how and what I should do to get a good chart according to this "abc.txt" file after execute these code:

Load 'abc.mat';
candle(dis('3/31/04::4/10/04'))

shall I?

[Walter Roberson]

I do not know. Is it possible that the 5 fints stored in "dis" corresponds to the 5 columns of values, such as OpenPrice and HighPrie ?

[vx2008]

thanks at all