Efficient way of reading cell arrays

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Hi
What would be the most efficient way to read content from cells; is it using for loops or cellfun functions. For example, My data have 3 layers of cells (cell in cell in cell). So, I used 3 'for loops' to get to data that are in the third cell. The code looks like this:
for j=1:size(evaldata,1)
for k=1:size(evaldata{j,1},1)
for l=1:size(evaldata{j,1}{k,2},1)
A{l,:}={evaldata{j,1}{k,1},(sscanf(evaldata{j,1}{k,2}{l,1}, '%f').')};
%
if ismember(A{l,1}{1,2}(2),v)
store{j}{l,k}{1,1}=A{l}{1,1};
for w=2:14
store{j}{l,k}(1,w)={A{l}{1,2}(w-1)};
end
else
store{j}{l,k}='not selected';
end
end
end
fz=cellfun(@isempty,evaldata{1,1});
fzz=find(fz(:,2));
for kk=1:size(fzz,1)
store{j}{1,fzz(kk)}=evaldata{1,1}{fzz(kk),1};
end
end
It probably does not mean much without explaining what it does... However, this looks like a brute force. Is there a bettwer way to deal with multiple array cells that are not the same size or declaration (strings, numbers, ...)?
Last few days I asked for help several times. This time I decided to do it by muself and I ended up having 100 loops :( :( :(. Maybe because I only used Fortran when it comes to programing.
Cheers, Djordje
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djr
djr on 5 Aug 2014
I need 20 min just to catch how all these loops are running and how they are connected to each other. I'll try tomorrow to solve it in a more sufficient way.
And yes... it does work. Somehow. :D
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 5 Aug 2014
Well you're right that it doesn't mean much without any explanation. No comments at all , and it looks so cryptic that I didn't even attempt to figure out what it does. It looks like you're trying to transfer some data from A and evaldata into store, but that's about all I got from it.

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per isakson
per isakson on 5 Aug 2014
Edited: per isakson on 4 Dec 2016
I continue where we left in your last question. I assume
  • There are many data-files in one folder
  • The names of the data-files match '\d[4}_\d{4}', i.e four digits, underscore followed by four digits. It's hard-coded.
The function, add_met_data_to_lib, can be used repeatedly to read data-files in many folders. Syntax
Create new lib
lib = add_met_data_to_lib('h:\m\cssm\*_*.txt')
add to existing lib
lib = add_met_data_to_lib('h:\m\cssm\*_*.txt', lib )
Example:
>> lib = add_met_data_to_lib('h:\m\cssm\*_*.txt')
lib =
Map with properties:
Count: 2925
KeyType: char
ValueType: any
>> lib('19491020T0600')
ans =
1.0e+03 *
Columns 1 through 9
0.0010 0.0110 0.0804 0.0526 1.0232 -0.0001 0.0026 0.0058 0.4113
0.0020 0.0010 0.0726 0.0449 1.0288 -0.0003 0.0050 0.0057 0.9271
0.0030 0 0.0393 0.0497 1.0288 -0.0004 0.0100 0.0105 0.1410
Columns 10 through 13
0.0020 0.0008 0.0790 0.0537
0.0004 0.0001 0.0747 0.0450
0.0018 0.0005 0.0360 0.0524
>>
where
function lib = add_met_data_to_lib( glob, lib )
narginchk( 1, 2 )
if nargin == 1
lib = containers.Map('KeyType','char','ValueType','any');
end
%
file_list = transpose( dir( glob ) );
%
is_met_file = not( isempty( regexp( [file_list.name] ...
, '\d{4}_\d{4}', 'start' ) ) );
file_list( not( is_met_file ) ) = [];
%
for file = file_list
lib = met2lib( file.name, lib );
end
end
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djr
djr on 6 Aug 2014
Edited: per isakson on 7 Aug 2014
Hi,
I made a template for output file (attached). The output is for anticyclone case and therefore there is 'a' at the and of each variable name. I used the same names for variables as they appear in the dateset (i.e. tracking scheme output).
I used the following command to create the output file:
T = table (datetime, ioa, fa, ca, dpa, rda, Vsa, dist_pa, dist_va)
writetable(T, 'acyc_output.txt', 'Delimiter', '\t', 'WriteRowNames',true)
Few notes:
  • dist_pa would be a distance from the pressure center to weather station (first pair of coordinates (columns 3 and 4))
  • dist_va would be a distance from the vorticity center to weather station (columns 12 and 13)
  • I don't need first column (named 'k' in the database)
  • I don't need 9th column (named 'zs' in the datebase)
  • And I don't need lat and log, but instead distances (dist_pa and dist_va) that will be calculated based on the lat/lon data.
Hopefully this helped.
P.S.
My e-mail is dj**************om
per isakson
per isakson on 7 Aug 2014
Yes, this becoming too specific for this forum. I sent a mail and blurred your mail-address

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Ahmet Cecen
Ahmet Cecen on 5 Aug 2014
This really doesn't make much sense without context to me. This is an incredibly inefficient data storage configuration. From what I understand, you can access everything you need in 3 for loops. (for the first eval.mat)
for i=1:14
currentI=eval{i}
for j=1:size(currentI,1)
header1=currentI{j,1};
currentJ=currentI{j,2};
for k=1:size(currentJ,1}
currentdata=currentJ{k,1}
PUT YOUR EVALUATION FUNCTION HERE
end
end
end
With this, at the evaluation step you have the following information: '0101194900' 1 0 77.20 43.17 1038.47 -0.268 7.442 7.1651644.929 0.000 0.000 75.96 41.45

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