an easy way to read log file by MATLAB

[Peggy]

Hi everyone,

I found an easy way to read .log file by MATLAB.  MATLAB has functions to read binary file but the difficulty is that we are not sure about the header and format of the log data. I am not familiar with Python so the other way that posted by benl using Python is such a pain to me.

Here are a few lines that can easily decode .log file with two channels of data:

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%% Read Data from OpenLogger file
close all;clear;clc
logfilename = '20190723_9_0.log';
finfo = dir(['F:\' logfilename]);
channelNum = 2; %number of channels
sampleNum = finfo.bytes/2/channelNum;
fileID = fopen(logfilename);
logdata = fread(fileID,[channelNum sampleNum],'int16=>int16');
fclose(fileID);
headerNum=257;
plot(logdata(1,headerNum+1:end),'-'),hold on %channel 1
plot(logdata(2,headerNum+1:end),'-'),hold off %channel 2

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Note: I don't care about the header info so I just get rid of it. I use random input pulses for ch2; The two plots are not from the same time.

 

peggy

 

[sgrobler]

Thanks for posting your code Peggy, Iv'e managed to use it to view some data.

Did you find out any more about what is in the header? Maybe that contains things like number of channels, sample rate etc?