Re: reading data using fgets in while loop

[indium]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:33:46PM -0400, financial engineer wrote:
> hi Indium,
> understood, the {} works vs. ().
> but then I also tried the date conversion as in your code (since my date 
> format is mm/dd/yyyy), I wrote the following:
> datestring=sprintf('%s',tline{1});
> pos27sec(n)=mktime(strptime(datestring,'%m/%d/%Y'));
> 
> pos27sec =
> 
>  Columns 1 through 6:
> 
>    1.3256e+09   1.3257e+09   1.3257e+09   1.3258e+09   1.3261e+09   1.3262e+09
> 
>  Columns 7 through 12:
> 
>    1.3263e+09   1.3263e+09   1.3264e+09   1.3268e+09   1.3269e+09   1.3269e+09
> 
>  Columns 13 through 18:
> 
>    1.3270e+09   1.3273e+09   1.3274e+09   1.3275e+09   1.3276e+09   1.3276e+09
> 
>  Columns 19 through 24:
> 
>    1.3279e+09   1.3280e+09   1.3281e+09   1.3282e+09   1.3282e+09   1.3285e+09
> 
>  Columns 25 through 30:
> 
>    1.3286e+09   1.3287e+09   1.3288e+09   1.3288e+09   1.3291e+09   1.3292e+09
> 
> 
>                                         

I think that's correct: the number of seconds since 1970, or something like 
that . You can find the definition in 'doc mktime'. There might well be smarter 
ways to do this: I just search in the manual for 'date' or 'time' and then I 
use whatever function that seems to suite me. Like in the answer of Philipe, 
you see that there are smarter ways to read a text file. Probably true for 
treating dates as well.