{"id":1493,"date":"2014-09-29T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:11:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:11:39","slug":"reading-parameters-from-a-file-in-matlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2014\/09\/29\/reading-parameters-from-a-file-in-matlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading parameters from a file in MATLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"In last week&#8217;s post, I showed <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2014\/09\/16\/easy-custom-excel-import-to-matlab\/\">how to generate code in MATLAB to automatically read in a file<\/a>.  In this video I show how to make a simple wrapper function around code generated in that way.  This wrapper will allow MATLAB to quickly look up a parameter in a text file.  This architecture was picked because I need to have a non-MATLAB user modify parameters when the application is deployed on their site.\r\n\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877304412001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2014\/09\/29\/reading-parameters-from-a-file-in-matlab\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/56c4b989-b42d-48c2-ba43-f74934b76613\/683b42ec-bbcf-47c2-a475-8a53f7697899\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">3:11<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>In last week&#8217;s post, I showed how to generate code in MATLAB to automatically read in a file.  In this video I show how to make a simple wrapper function around code generated in that way. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2014\/09\/29\/reading-parameters-from-a-file-in-matlab\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}