Importdata imports nothing at all

Hi all,

(Matlab 2016b v- 9.1.0.441655)

I have a code which was working just fine in the past. For some odd reason it stopped working. This is the culprit part of the code

    filename = '/home/spawn/Dropbox/PEGASUS/OnlineGraph/cleanResults.txt';
    delimiterIn = ';';
    A = importdata(filename,delimiterIn);

This results in importing an empty array ([ ]).

Trying to open a non-existent file yields an

Unable to open file.

Error, which isn't the case here.

Thanks!

-- Ira

[Adam]

Without knowing what is in your text file it is impossible to say really.

[the cyclist]

Can you upload a small example of a text file that exhibits this behavior, so that we can try to replicate it?

Answer 1

[Chirag Parekh]

Make sure that the file is in ASCII format. Try the example at https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2016b/matlab/ref/importdata.html#btldf1f-1

If the example works, the problem might be with the file. If you are not able to figure out the issue, please upload the file so that others can help.