rows interval using textscan

What is the equivalent of

xlsread('data.xlsx','B5:B10') 

in the

textscan 

?

[Bob Thompson]

To the best of my knowledge, you cannot specify a specific number of rows within textscan. You can tell it to ignore a number of rows at the beginning as 'headers,' but I don't believe it stops until it finishes the file once it actually starts reading.

[sermet OGUTCU]

Thank you Bob. Any alternative for textscan is available?

[Himanshu Rai]

You can try this https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/76197-how-to-read-strings-from-file-with-fscanf-or-sscanf-not-textscan

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

The intent of the question is a bit unclear since textscan cannot parse excel files. If the intent is to parse a csv file, then both dlmread and csvread (which calls dlmread) accept a range.

In any case, it is very likely that parsing the text file would be a lot easier with readtable or readmatrix. The latter requires R2019a.