I Want Users Browse The File, But It Affects to My Script

Question

I'm doing with MATLAB.

I have a file named 'cobat'. Cobat is a *txt file, tab delimited, consisted of 3 coloumns, so it's a table. I load it manually into this script:

I want users browse their own file. How can I do it? Is this code correct:

[filename pathname] = uigetfile(('.txt'), 'Browse Your File')

Here are my problems:

1. I think it is only for text file, not tab delimited (table). I think I have to use uitable, but I don't understand how to implement it, because the file (cobat) should be loaded.

2. And, if it has been implemented, I can't write 'cobat' in my script, like this:

[g c] = kmeans(cobat,k,'dist','SqEuclidean'); y = [cobat g]

Then I have to change 'cobat' to what name?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You are on the right track. After locating the file you need to load it:

load([pathname filesep filename])

If file name is cobat (or cobat.txt), it will create a matrix called cobat in the workspace with the content of the file.