"Error using textscan Invalid file identifier. Use fopen to generate a valid file identifier." - why am i getting this error?

% Read the data from the file

fid = fopen('gc-data-2.txt', 'r');
data = textscan(fid, '%f %s %f');

Error using textscan
Invalid file identifier. Use fopen to generate a valid file identifier.

fclose(fid);

% 1.Identify the lines that contain data

ind = regexp(data{1}, 'Data');
ind = find(~cellfun(@isempty, ind));

% 2.Get the number of data points
npoints = length(ind);

% Read up to the data
x = data{1}(1:ind(1)-1);
y = data{2}(1:ind(1)-1);

% 3.    Initialize the data vectors
time = zeros(npoints, 1);
signal = zeros(npoints, 1);

% Read in the data
for i = 1:npoints
    time(i) = data{1}(ind(i));
    signal(i) = data{2}(ind(i));
end

% 4.Plot the data
figure
plot(time, signal)
xlabel('Time (s)')
ylabel('Signal')
title('data')

% Correct for non-zero baseline
signal = signal - mean(signal);

% 5.Implementing a fitting procedure using a decaying gaussian function
% Define the decaying gaussian function
gauss = @(p, x) p(1)*exp(-((x - p(2))./p(3)).^2) + p(4);

% Define the objective function
obj = @(p) sum((gauss(p, time) - signal).^2);

% Define the initial guess for the parameters
p0 = [1, mean(time), std(time), 0];

% Optimize the parameters
p = fminsearch(obj, p0);

% 6. implementing a fitting procedure with two peaks and plot the fitting function with an initial guess for each parameter
% Define the function that adds two decaying gaussian functions
gauss2 = @(p, x) p(1)*exp(-((x - p(2))./p(3)).^2) + p(4) + p(5)*exp(-((x - p(6))./p(7)).^2) + p(8);

% 7. Plot fitting function with an initial guess for each parameter
% First we define Define the initial guess for the parameters
p0 = [1, mean(time), std(time), 0, 1, mean(time), std(time), 0];

% Plot the fitting function with the initial guess for the parameters
figure
plot(time, gauss2(p0, time))
xlabel('Time (s)')
ylabel('Signal')
title('fitting function with initial guess')

% 8.using nonlinear fitting to get the parameters that best fit our data, and ploting the fit on the graph 
% Optimize the parameters
p2 = lsqnonlin(obj2, p0);

% Plot the fit on the graph
figure
plot(time, signal)
hold on
plot(time, gauss2(p2, time))
xlabel('Time (s)')
ylabel('Signal')

% 9.extracting out the two peaks and integrating the areas 
% Extract the two peaks
peak1 = gauss(p2(1:4), time);
peak2 = gauss(p2(5:8), time);
% Display the two peaks extracted
figure
plot(time, peak1)
hold on
plot(time, peak2)
xlabel('Time (s)')
ylabel('Signal')
legend('Peak 1', 'Peak 2')
title('the two extracted peaks')

% Integrate the areas
area1 = trapz(time, peak1);
area2 = trapz(time, peak2);
% Display the integrated areas
fprintf('Integrated area 1: %f\n', area1)
fprintf('Integrated area 2: %f\n', area2)

% 10.Compute the relative amounts
rel1 = area1/(area1 + area2);
rel2 = area2/(area1 + area2);
% Display the relative amounts
fprintf('Relative amount 1: %f\n', rel1)
fprintf('Relative amount 2: %f\n', rel2)

[RIHANA ALI]

what am i supposed to fix

Undefined variable 'data'.

ind = regexp(data{1}, 'Data');
ind = find(~cellfun(@isempty, ind));

Error using cellfun
Input #2 expected to be a cell array, was double instead

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

The most likely reason is because the file you are trying to open does not exist. Check that you have spelled the file name correctly, and that the file is either in your current folder, or in a folder that has been added to your MATLAB Path.

You many need to include the path to the file (relative or absolute) along with the filename to fopen. You may want to consider using fullfile to construct that.

[RIHANA ALI]

yes , your right the file name was spelled wrong.Thank you