get variables from text file

Hello!

I have a text file with data from a person who did an experiment. It is attached here. I need to get a vector with the number of every trial. Then I need a cell array that contains all the buttons pressed in that trial, all the timePresses and all the durations. E.g. for that file the trial numbers vector would be : [1 2 7 8 9]. For trial 1 the button would contain: 2 1 2 1, the timePress would contain: 5.6497, 6.6892, 12.3369, 12.7852 and the duration would contain: 0.8395 5.6476 0.4483 6.1118. I imagine we need something like textscan or regular expressions but I don't really know how to use them... Thanks on advance for every advice.

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Answer 1

[Ageliki Vka]

Anyone please?

Answer 2

[Jeff Miller]

GetNumsInAsciiFile (on FileExchange) will get you one long list of numbers, and then you can put them where you like. Maybe that's a start.

Answer 3

[Sarah Palfreyman]

You can also use Text Analytics Toolbox for this workflow.