I have the following text file, THERM2.DAT which has a unique format:
Ag+ g10/97AG 1.E -1. 0. 0.G 298.150 6000.000 1000. 1
9.72687035E+00-4.01472180E-03 7.47796464E-07-1.76595533E-11-4.14279861E-15 2
1.17714726E+05-3.91847888E+01 1.67072904E-01 2.30034783E-02-8.05675031E-05 3
1.14647031E-07-5.08119362E-11 1.22365909E+05 1.49717871E+01 1.22928919E+05 4
Ag- g10/97AG 1.E 1. 0. 0.G 298.150 6000.000 1000. 1
2.50067694E+00 0.00000000E+00 0.00000000E+00 0.00000000E+00 0.00000000E+00 2
1.76654697E+04 5.86586664E+00 2.50067694E+00 0.00000000E+00 0.00000000E+00 3
0.00000000E+00 0.00000000E+00 1.76654697E+04 5.86586664E+00 1.84110465E+04 4
AIR L 9/95 WARNING! 0G 200.000 6000.000 1000. 1
3.08792717E+00 1.24597184E-03-4.23718945E-07 6.74774789E-11-3.97076972E-15 2
-9.95262755E+02 5.95960930E+00 3.56839620E+00-6.78729429E-04 1.55371476E-06 3
-3.29937060E-12-4.66395387E-13-1.06234659E+03 3.71582965E+00-1.50965000E+01 4
This is only a portion of the file, there are hundreds of lines where each group of 4 lines correspond to a particular species.
My goal is to convert all of this data into something more generic, like a CSV file so it can be easily read by various programs like Excel, Matlab, etc. Something like the following would be nice:
Ag+,298,6000,1000,9.72687035E+00,-4.01472180E-03,7.47796464E-07,etc...
Air,200,6000,1000,3.08792717E+00,1.24597184E-03,-4.23718945E-07,etc...
Since I have Matlab, I was wondering if I could use it to export the data to a CSV file. So far I have the following Matlab script:
fid = fopen('THERM2.DAT');
data = textscan(fid,'%s');
Using textscan
puts all the data in a cell array but I don't know how to grab the data from the array and write it to CSV formatted text.