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MATLAB: Session 2: EE3252 Electronic Engineering Labs II

This document discusses MATLAB functions for reading and writing text files, including fopen to open a file, fgetl to read a line, fscanf to read formatted data, and fprintf to write to a file. It provides an example program and data files for reading data and plotting waveforms. It also demonstrates calculating the area under a curve and saving data to a text file using fprintf. Exercises are included to investigate a more accurate area calculation method and create/plot a file with cosine function results.

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MATLAB: Session 2: EE3252 Electronic Engineering Labs II

This document discusses MATLAB functions for reading and writing text files, including fopen to open a file, fgetl to read a line, fscanf to read formatted data, and fprintf to write to a file. It provides an example program and data files for reading data and plotting waveforms. It also demonstrates calculating the area under a curve and saving data to a text file using fprintf. Exercises are included to investigate a more accurate area calculation method and create/plot a file with cosine function results.

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EE3252 Electronic Engineering Labs II

MATLAB : Session 2

Reading/Writing text files


The syntax is almost the same than in the C Language. The basic
functions in Matlab are:

Open a file:
file_id = fopen(file_name,'mode')

Read a line from a file:


data_line = fgetl(file_id);

Get the variables from the line of data:


variable = sscanf(dat_line,'%f')

Read formatted data from a file:


array=fscanf(file_id,'%e%c',[4,inf])

Write text on a file:


fprintf(file_id,' %s \n', text_variable)
fprintf(file_id,'%8.2f\t', data_variable)

Close a file:
fclose(file_id);

Example
Program:
i:\public\teaching\eleceng\EE3252\lab2.m
Data:
i:\public\teaching\eleceng\EE3252\temp1.txt

Mona. Ghassemian Sep-Nov 2002


EE3252 Electronic Engineering Labs II

Example of reading and plotting data (lab2.m):

filename=input('Input the filename:','s');

fid=fopen(filename,'r');

array=fscanf(fid,'%e%c',[4,inf]);

plot(array([1],:),array([3],:));

fclose(fid);

xlabel('Time(us)')

ylabel('Voltage(v)')

title('Waveform demonstration')

grid
Demonstrating how to calculate the area under a
curve.

You can create a curve,either by putting values of X1 and Y1 or


generating them with a function such as cos, sin,…

function ar = area(x1,y1)
% AREA Area between a curve and the X axis

index=1; acc_area=0;
while( index < length(x1) )
base = x1(index+1) - x1(index);
height = y1(index);
acc_area = acc_area + base*height;
index = index + 1 ;
end
ar = acc_area;

Mona. Ghassemian Sep-Nov 2002


EE3252 Electronic Engineering Labs II

Demonstrating how to read data from file and


plotting data as figures

FOPEN Open file


FPRINTF Write formatted data to file
FCLOSE Close file.
FSCANF Read formatted data from file.

filename=input('Input the filename:','s');


fid=fopen(filename,'r');
% 'r' read
% 'w' write (create if necessary)

array=fscanf(fid,'%e%c',[4,inf]);
% Use %c to read space characters

plot(array([1],:),array([3],:));
fclose(fid);
xlabel('Time(us)')
ylabel('Voltage(v)')
title('Waveform demonstration')
grid

Mona. Ghassemian Sep-Nov 2002


EE3252 Electronic Engineering Labs II

To show how you can save your data in a text file

FPRINTF Write formatted data to file

x = 0:.1:1; y = [x; exp(x)];


fid = fopen('exp.txt','w');
fprintf(fid,'%6.2f %12.8f\n',y);
% The special formats \n,\r,\t,\b,\f can be used to produce linefeed,
% carriage return, tab, backspace, and form feed characters respectively.
% Use \\ to produce a backslash character and %% to produce the percent
% character.

fclose(fid);

Exercise:

1) Investigate more about the area.m .See if you can find a more accurate method for
calculating the area under a curve.

2) Try creating a file(result.txt) with the cosgen function’s result in it. Then open the
file (result.txt) and plot and print it . (use your own numbers for Amplitude, Frequency
& Phase.)

Mona. Ghassemian Sep-Nov 2002

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