Question about translating hexadecimal character cell

Hello, thanks for reading this,

I have a n*5 cell of character elements that represent hexadecimal numbers. I want to take this and convert it to decimal matrix.

What I do is search through a text file, and with the lines:

   while (isempty(strfind(tline,faceMatrixEnd)) )
      vVolumeFaceMx(volumeCounter,:) = textscan(tline, '%s %s %s %s %s', 'delimiter', ' ');
      tline = fgetl(fid_source);
      volumeCounter = volumeCounter+1;
   end

I create a cell with n*5 columns, each cell element containing a string.

For instance, I can translate one element into a decimal value using:

   sscanf(my_matrix{1,1}{1,1}, '%x')

but if I wanted to do this for my entire cell, what I would do right now is use loops, which would take a while.

Is there an faster and easier way to do this?

Answer 1

[Brian]

I bypassed this problem by using a different command to read the text file.

using the code:

      vVolumeFaceMx(:,volumeCounter) = sscanf(tline, '%x %x %x %x %x');
      tline = fgetl(fid_source);
      volumeCounter = volumeCounter+1;

allowed me to read it into a hexadecimal format to begin with.