Parsing Abaqus .inp file with Matlab

[BigwillyJohnson]

Hello All,

I am trying to write data to specific locations in the .inp text file using matlab. My grand scheme' is to have matlab and abaqus work together to optimize a model.

I can write to specific places but the incumbent text gets pushed and moved around.

For example

if a line has the word "**PARTS"
and the next line has "**"
and i write "12345678" to the first line

the result will be:
"12345678*" on the first line and whatever was on the third line will be on the second line

the text gets moved and messed up

Any help would be appreciated
Rick

 

[loki3000]

use python if possible, much easier

 

[BigwillyJohnson]

Thx for the reply.

I ended up using fgets and fprintf to rewrite the file.

It only takes a few seconds.

 

[BigwillyJohnson]

After thinking about this I have another question.

Can python do the brute force math that matlab can do?

If so then I would see were I should cut matlab out of the picture completely.