ASCII to Decimal numbers

I have an instrument that outputs ascii instead of decimal numbers. How do you convert between the two formats? I've attached a text file of the data I'm dealing with. It's supposed to be packed as 4-byte single precision floating point binary, in little endian format. I'm new to data types, so if someone could also tell me what exactly that means it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

It looks like a binary file. See the documentation on the fread (link) function for details.

Try this, to see if it looks like the result you expect:

fidi = fopen('ascii_data.txt','r');
D = fread(fidi, 'single', 'ieee-le');
fclose(fidi);

figure
plot(D)
grid

This should get you started, and you will likely have to experiment to get the result you want.

I have no recent experience with these sorts of files, and when I was working with them quite a while ago, knew the result to expect.

[Adelaide Bradicich]

That works exactly like I need it to! Thanks so much.

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!