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sptread
Purpose
Read data from a SPOT file
Syntax
SPOTData = sptread('File',
'PropertyName', PropertyValue)
sptread(..., 'CleanColNames, 'CleanColNamesValues')
Arguments
Description
File
SPOT formatted file (ASCII text file).
Enter a filename, a path and filename, or
URL pointing to a file. File can also be
a MATLAB character array that contains
the text for a SPOT file.
CleanColNamesValue
Property to control using valid MATLAB
variable names.
SPOTData = sptread('File') reads a SPOT formatted file and creates
a MATLAB structure SPOTData containing the following fields:
Header
Data
Blocks
Columns
Rows
IDs
ColumnNames
Indices
Shape
sptread(..., 'CleanColNames, CleanColNamesValue) The column
names in the SPOT file contain periods and some characters that
cannot be used in MATLAB variable names. If you plan to use the
column names as variable names in a function, use this option with
CleanColNames set to true and the function will return the field
ColumnNames with valid variable names.
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