read data from .m file

hi

I want to store different variables in the same .m file,And after I must read these variables one by one. exemple

1
23 3 4
5  6  4

This is contain of .m file.I need to, load this contain, read 1st and 3 rd rows. I hope you help me. thanks

[Walter Roberson]

Discusses proceeded in the duplicate question http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/26116-read-a-line-frome-file

[atsprink]

I have the following data in a .m file. I realize this is bad but it is out of my control. I have looked into using fopen and fscanf to read the data. I can duplicate the exact data from the file but I only need part of the data. Please see the attached file for the data I want to read.

%read in data from file

fileId = fopen('pfoutput.m');

opPoints = fscanf(fileId, '%c');

I just want the numeric values.

[Walter Roberson]

fileId = fopen('pfoutput.m');
datacell = textscan(fileId, '*%f|%f/%f*', 'HeaderLines', 3, 'CollectOutput', 1);
fclose(fileId);
opPoints = datacell{1};

[atsprink]

awesome...thank you for the help. I was able to make little tweaks to your solution to work as I needed it to.

Answer 1

[Thomas]

Variables are not stored in .m files as they are ASCII, Variables are usually stored in .mat files that matlab can read.

E.g.: http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/load.html

[Abishek]

How to read the .m flies