FILE PARSING: MATLAB PROGRAM: clear all close all clc %getting the data file f1=fopen(\'THERMO.dat\',\'r\') fgetl(f1) %reading the header information A=fgetl(f1) A=strsplit(A,\' \') global_low_temp=str2num(A{2}) global_mid_temp=str2num(A{3}) global_high_temp=str2num(A{4}) %skipping next three lines for i=1:3 fgetl(f1)…
Gopinath Baskaran
updated on 20 Jan 2020
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