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Computer Programming

with MATLAB

 Advanced File Input and Output


 Opening A File
 Closing A File
 Reading from Files
 Writing to Files
 Exercise

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Advanced File Input and Output
 input function is used to read values entered by the user.
 disp and fprintf are used to display information in windows on
the screen.
 For file input and output (file I/O), we use the load and save
functions, which can read from a data file into a matrix, and
write from a matrix to a data file.
 There are many different file types, which use different
filename extensions.
 load and save function works only with either the extension
.dat or .txt.
 The load and save command works only if there are the same
number of values in each line and the values are the same
type, so that the data can be stored in a matrix.
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Steps involved in File Operation
 Open the file.
 Read from the file, write to the file, or append to the
file.
 Close the file.

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Opening A File
 fopen
 This is used to open a particular file. By default, the fopen function
opens a file for reading. If another mode is desired, a permission
string is used to specify which mode (e.g., writing or appending).
 The general form is

◼ The permission string may


be:

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Opening A File
⚫ Always remember, when fopen is attempted, the value
returned should be tested to make sure that the file was
successfully opened or not.

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Closing A
⚫ File
fclose
◼ This is used to close the opened file. Individual files can be closed by
specifying the file identifier or if more than one file is open, all open
files can be closed by passing the string ‘all’ to the close function.

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Writing to
Files
fprintf
 This is used to write one line at a time to a file.
 This is used to write a file and also to append something to a file.
 Also used to write output on the screen. The screen is the default
output device, so if a file identifier is not specified, the output goes to
the screen otherwise it goes to the specified file.

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Reading from A
File
fgetl
 This is used to read strings from a file one line at a time.
 This function reads one line of data from a file into a string; string
functions can then be used to manipulate the data.
 Since fgetl reads only one line, it normally is placed in a loop that
keeps going until the end of the file is reached. (feof function is used
for the same)

 Question
 Consider data file ‘subjexp.dat’ which contains a number followed by a
character code on each line. WAP to display contents as shown below

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Reading from A
File

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Exercise
 Question
 For a biomedical experiment, the names and weights of some patients
have been stored in a file ‘patwts.dat’. For example, the file might look
like this:
◼ Darby George 166.2
◼ Helen Dee 143.5
◼ Giovanni Lupa 192.4
◼ Cat Donovan 215.1

⚫ Create this data file


first.

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Exercise
◼ Question (From patwts.dat read and display data as
follows:)
⚫ George,Darby 166.2
⚫ Dee,Helen 143.5
⚫ Lupa,Giovanni 192.4
⚫ Donovan,Cat 215.1
 The average weight is 179.30
 File close successful.

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