Matlab function to read data files having .Cmn extension

I want to open and read data files in Matlab having extension '.Cmn'. Please inform me weather there is any Matlab function to open and read this type of data files. I could not attach a sample data file here as the file format is not supported.

I don't know much about CMN files. Some information is provided in the website 'FilExt' as "the CMN file type is primarily associated with Systems Management Server (SMS) by Microsoft Corporation.You need a suitable software like Systems Management Server (SMS) from Microsoft Corporation to open a CMN file."

The website recognizes the file as a 'text file' but I couldnot read the file in Matlab using the 'textscan' function. Also the 'online viewer' in the website reads the data file as:

chum, Kazakhstan

42.99850 74.75110 716.33210

MJdatet Time PRN Az Ele Lat Lon Stec Vtec S4

57372.372569 8.941667 1 319.78 11.39 50.417 64.330 37.91 12.65 -99.000

57372.372917 8.950000 1 319.74 11.58 50.350 64.431 37.85 12.68 -99.000

57372.373264 8.958333 1 319.70 11.77 50.284 64.529 37.69 12.68 -99.000

57372.373611 8.966667 1 319.66 11.96 50.218 64.626 37.53 12.68 -99.000

57372.373958 8.975000 1 319.62 12.15 50.153 64.722 37.42 12.70 -99.000

57372.374306 8.983333 1 319.58 12.34 50.088 64.816 37.20 12.68 -99.000

57372.374653 8.991667 1 319.54 12.52 50.025 64.908 37.00 12.67 -99.000

57372.375000 9.000000 1 319.50 12.71 49.961 64.999 36.84 12.67 -99.000

57372.375347 9.008333 1 319.45 12.90 49.899 65.088 36.57 12.63 -99.000

[Walter Roberson]

I do not think that content has anything to do with Microsoft Systems Management Server.

Can you attach a sample file?

[Dr. Bapan Paul]

Thnak you very much for the prompt response.

As I mentioned earlier, I could not attach a sample data file here as the CMN file format is not supported for attachment. So I manually opened and saved a CMN file in excle format. Please find the file attached.

[Walter Roberson]

You can attach any file (that is not to big) by zip'ing it and attaching the .zip

[Walter Roberson]

readtable() has no problem reading the xlsx file, automatically skipping the first two lines.

Do you need the first two lines?

[Dr. Bapan Paul]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have now attached a zipped sample CMN data file.

I wish to read directly the CMN data file. And I don't need the first two lines.

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

Try the following code. It ignores the first two lines of the file and starts from the line

MJdatet ...

The first row is used as column names for the table, and the rest is used as numeric data.

f = fopen('data.txt');
data = textscan(f, '%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s', 'HeaderLines', 2);
data = [data{:}];
fclose(f);

column_names = data(1, :);
numeric_data = data(2:end,:);
numeric_data = cellfun(@(x) str2double(x), numeric_data);
T = array2table(numeric_data, 'VariableNames', column_names);

[Stephen23]

Why not just import as numeric?

Importing as character and then converting to numeric does not seem to add any benefit.

[Dr. Bapan Paul]

Good suggestion. Thanks.

Initially I was searching for a specific matlab function which can read CMN data files. But after this discussion, the problem is solved. CMN files can be read using the textscan function.

Thank you all.

[Ameer Hamza]

Yes, that would heve been a better solution.

Following will also work

readmatrix('data.txt', 'NumHeaderLines', 3)

Answer 2

[Dr. Bapan Paul]

I can now directly read CMN data files using the below code:

% Read CMN data files

f = fopen('chum350-2015-12-16.Cmn');
file_data=textscan(f, '%f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f','headerlines',3,'delimiter',' ');    % reading the text file and extracting the data in a cell               
Raw_data=cell2mat(file_data);       % converting cell data into a mat file