Read text file

Hi,

I have a text file which contains the following data format

3

abc (1:200, 200: 400)

bcd (1:300, 200: 300)

cde (1:100, 200: 500)

The first line tells me the number of lines to read in. How do I read in the values of the 2: 4th lines? I am using textread but it only returns the value of the first line.

Thanks. Charles

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

There are at least a couple ways you can try. One is to use the textscan() command.

I also like the readtext() command from the File Exchange: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/10946 for this sort of thing.

[Charles]

textscan is exactly what I needed. Thanks.