How to fix odd string imports?

Hello,

I'm importing data and and forwhatever reason the strings get imported as:

[Walter Roberson]

Unfortunately, your example did not get posted.

How are you doing your importing?

What kind of file are you importing from?

Which MATLAB release do you have?

[Dc215905]

Thanks for your reply.

The example are:

'ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ' , ' 'Spot1.cfs ÿÿÿ', XFlags ÿÿÿÿ

I'm using to read the text and it's from a .cfs file (data aquisition software)

fread(fid,[1,8],'uint8=>char');

I'm using matlab 2021a

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Which .cfs ?

https://datatypes.net/open-cfs-files

The ÿ character is unicode U+00FF so the most likely situation is that you are reading a binary file (that might have text-readable parts)