Property_value + matlab

Question

For an .ini file with property_value pair, I\'d like to define the datatype for property_name such that I will convert the datatype based

Answer 1

Modifying the struct from this answer to contain value and type

function fileData = readFileIntoStruct( fileName )
%
% read [property] value pairs file into struct
% 
fh = fopen( fileName, 'r' ); % read handle
line = fgetl( fh );
while ischar( line )
    % property
    tkn = regexp( line, '\[([^\]+)]\]\s*%\s*([^%]+)\s*$', 'once', 'tokens' );
    % read next line for value
    val = fgetl( fh );
    fileDate.(tkn{1}).val = val;
    fileDate.(tkn{1}).type = tkn{2};
    line = fgetl( fh ); % keep reading
end
fclose( fh ); % don't forget to close the file at the end.

Assumptions:

1. The properties' names are legitimate Matlab field names (see variable naming for details).

2. The value of each property is always a string.

3. I did not include any error-checking code in these examples (files not found, wrongly formatted strings, etc.)

4. I assume the input file is strictly "[prop] val" pairs without any additional comments etc.