Textscan: 2013b VS 2016a

Hi,

I have created a script to import data from a certain file by using textscan. On my own computer (OS X, R2016a) the script works, but on the desktop at work (Windows, R2013b), the script crashes at textscan.

Therefore, I took one line out of the input file (denoted x in the code) which I'd like to import. I created a simple script:

x = '06.11.2015 14:34:36  7  25.6  24  20.5  20.5  0  0  0  6152  0  0  0  0  0  14  34  62  29.2  0  0  0  0';
M = textscan(x, '%{dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss}D %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f','Delimiter','\t');

On R2016a, M becomes a 1x23 cell with the data in it. On R2013b, I get:

Error using textscan
Badly formed format string

Why is the script working on R2016a but not on R2013b?

Answer 1

[George]

You're trying to convert one of the fields to a datetime, which wasn't introduced into 2014b.

[Daan Wielens]

Thanks, that explains a lot!