Find string corresponding to another string within a text file

Hi,

I have a text file,

I was trying to read the latitide, longitude and station name corresponding to the associated strings within a text file. For example for reading the latitude and longitude in the file, the below lines worked.

 buffer = fileread(fullFileName) ;
  lat=str2double(regexpi(buffer, '(?<=Station latitude:\s+) [\d\.]+', 'match'));
  lon=str2double(regexpi(buffer, '(?<=Station longitude:\s+) [\d\.]+', 'match'));

However, for station name which is in the .txt file (attached) as Station name: Payerne,

the below line did not work and I am getting NaN as output

   name=str2double(regexpi(buffer, '(?<=Station name:\s+) \w*', 'match'));

Answer 1

[Mohammad Sami]

Station name is a char / string. however you are using str2double. This will ofcourse give you a nan output.

You can remove the str2double.

name=regexpi(buffer, '(?<=Station name:\s+)\w*', 'match');