Re: Slow Processing Issue

[Philip Nienhuis]

Fritz Sonnichsen wrote
> Thanks all!
> 
> I just looked at Francesco's post (busy week here) and wrote up the 
> script using textread. I had avoided it because matlab is obsoleting 
> textread but I am more than happy to use it. This solved the problem--it 
> is much faster.  I ran 135,000 records in 13.6 seconds.
> 
> The pertinent code area was:
> [C,R,V]= textread 
> (filename,"%*s,%f,%*f,%*f,%*f,%f,%f,%*f,%*f,%*s,%*s",'delimiter',',');
> 
> I had to use the "delimiter as I am using CSV.  The "asterik" format was 
> handy to avoid using up memory.

If you have the io package installed, you can also use csv2cell to read such
files.
As csv2cell is a binary function it is much, much faster than textread which
is a mere .m function.

Philip



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