How to read greek characters in a .txt file
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What is the command in order to read greek characters in a .txt file via matlab programming?
My file has 3 columns. The first one has names , the 2nd and 3rd have numbers.
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Rik
on 10 Dec 2020
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You can get my readfile function from the FEX. If you are using R2017a or later, you can also get it through the AddOn-manager.
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Ivan Mich
on 13 Dec 2020
Walter Roberson
on 13 Dec 2020
Can you attach the first couple of lines of your .txt file? Including enough to have some greek characters in the example.
I asked to "attach" rather than "post" in case there are special characters that might not be obvious from reading it on screen. For example, tabs.
Walter Roberson
on 13 Dec 2020
Also please indicate which MATLAB release you are using, as there was a relatively recent change that makes a difference.
Rik
on 13 Dec 2020
I'm currently not at a computer, so I can't run code on your file, but the input option 'Delimiter' does not exist for my function. That is why it isn't in the documentation.
Walter Roberson
on 13 Dec 2020
That file is not three columns, it is 28 columns.
T = readtable('test.csv')
handles the sample with no problem
Ivan Mich
on 16 Dec 2020
Rik
on 16 Dec 2020
Your file does not contain any Greek characters. It is an ANSI-encoded file that does contain some special characters (like Ð), but no Greek symbols.
You can use readfile, but if you want to separate the lines along delimiters as well, you will have to parse each line separately (e.g. with the split function).
t=readfile('test.csv');
t=split(t,',');
Ivan Mich
on 16 Dec 2020
Walter Roberson
on 16 Dec 2020
Is it possible that you tried the split() twice ? It should not be able to give that error when the input is a character vector such as the result from readfile(), but it could give that error if the input is the result of a previous split()
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