RE: reading data using fgets in while loop

[financial engineer]

> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:53:27 +0000
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> Subject: Re: reading data using fgets in while loop
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> 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.

got it....thanks Indium