Create a data file to store information on hurricanes. Each line in the file should have the name of the hurricane, its speed in miles per hour, and the diameter of its eye in miles

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Ch9Ex18.m

% Reads hurricane information and store in vector

% of structures, print name and area for each

fid = fopen('hurricane.dat');

if fid == -1

 disp('File open not successful')

else

 i = 0;

 while feof(fid) == 0

 i = i + 1;

 aline = fgetl(fid);

 [hname, rest] = strtok(aline);

 [speed, diam] = strtok(rest);

 hstruc = struct('Name', hname, 'Speed', ...

 str2num(speed), 'Diam', str2num(diam));

 hurricane(i) = hstruc;

 end

 for i = 1:length(hurricane)

 fprintf('%s had area %.2f\n', hurricane(i).Name, ...

 pi * (hurricane(i).Diam/2)^2)

 end

 

 closeresult = fclose(fid);

 if closeresult == 0

 disp('File close successful')

 else

 disp('File close not successful')

 end 

end

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