getting certain text into a vector in matlab [duplicate]

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finding a specific data from a text file in matlab

I already opened the text file titled 'gos.txt' using the following code:

s={}; 
fid = fopen('gos.txt'); 
tline = fgetl(fid); 
while ischar(tline) 
   s=[s;tline]; 
   tline = fgetl(fid); 
end

I got the result as follows: s =

'[Term]'    
'id: GO:0008150'
'name: biological_process'
'namespace: biological_process'
'alt_id: GO:0000004'
'alt_id: GO:0007582'
[1x243 char]
[1x445 char]
'subset: goslim_aspergillus'
'subset: goslim_candida'
'subset: goslim_yeast'
'subset: gosubset_prok'
'synonym: "biological process" EXACT []'
'synonym: "biological process unknown" NARROW []'
'synonym: "physiological process" EXACT []'
'xref: Wikipedia:Biological_process'
'[Term]'    
'id: GO:0016740'
'name: transferase activity'
'namespace: molecular_function'
[1x326 char]
'subset: goslim_aspergillus'
'subset: goslim_candida'
'subset: goslim_metagenomics'
'subset: goslim_pir'
'subset: goslim_plant'
'subset: gosubset_prok'
'xref: EC:2'
'xref: Reactome:REACT_25050 "Molybdenum ion transfer onto molybdopterin, Homo sapiens"'
'//is_a: GO:0003674 ! molecular_function'
'is_a: GO:0008150 ! molecular_function (added by Zaid, To be Removed Later)'
'//relationship: part_of GO:0008150 ! biological_process'
'[Term]'    
'id: GO:0016787'
'name: hydrolase activity'
'namespace: molecular_function'
[1x186 char]
'subset: goslim_aspergillus'
'subset: goslim_candida'
'subset: goslim_metagenomics'
'subset: goslim_plant'
'subset: gosubset_prok'
'xref: EC:3'
'//is_a: GO:0003674 ! molecular_function'
'is_a: GO:0016740 ! molecular_function (added by Zaid, to be removed later)'
'relationship: part_of GO:0008150 ! biological_process'
'[Term]'    
'id: GO:0006810'
'name: transport'
'namespace: biological_process'
'alt_id: GO:0015457'
'alt_id: GO:0015460'
[1x255 char]
'subset: goslim_aspergillus'
'subset: goslim_candida'
'synonym: "small molecule transport" NARROW []'
'synonym: "solute:solute exchange" NARROW []'
'synonym: "transport accessory protein activity" RELATED [GOC:mah]'
'is_a: GO:0016787 ! biological_process'
'relationship: part_of GO:0008150 ! biological_process'
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the step after is how to take a certain charater and put it in a vector.. for example: I want to put all lines contains 'id: GO:*******' and put them in a vector, also I want to get 'is_a: GO:*******' to a vector , note that I don't want to the characters after that in the same line .

Answer 1

Assuming you only want to find things at the start of a line it is quite simple:

found=[]
for i=1:length(s)
    temp = s{i};
    if strcmp('id: GO:',temp(1:min(7,end));
        found = [found i];
    end
end

Now found contains a vector with all locations of strings that start with id: GO:

I cannot try it in Matlab at the moment, but this should be about right.

Answer 2

You can easily use regexp here - it works for cells:

matching_lines = s{~cellfun('isempty', regexp(s, '^id: GO'))}

ans =

 id: GO:0008150

ans =

 id: GO:0016740

extracts all lines that start with id: GO. The cellfun call alone gives you a vector of 0/1, where 1 means that a string in s matches your query.

Similar line finds ones that contain is_a: GO:. Cutting unnecessary characters from the strings can also be done with regexp.

Extracting parts of the strings can be done using the 'tokens' parameter of regexp:

tok = regexp(s, '^id: (GO.*)', 'tokens');
idx = ~cellfun('isempty', tok);
v   = cellfun(@(x)x{1}, {tok{idx}});
sprintf('%s ', v{:})

ans =

 GO:0008150 GO:0016740