How to remove content from file

http://speedy.sh/uC73Z/merged.txt

In this text file there are two columns. In second column i want to remove all those rows which falls between 279 to 291. So, how to do it..?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

YourData = load('merged.txt');
YourData(YourData(:,2) > 279 & YourData(:,2) < 291, :) = [];
save('Newmerged.txt', 'YourData', '-ascii');

Note that I have interpreted "between" as meaning not equal to 279 or 291 exactly, the open interval (279,291), rather than the closed interval [279, 291]

[Lalit Patil]

But, in this new generated text file how can i know which second column data corresponds to which first column data..?

Here two columns are generated, so, can't identify sequence..

So, i want same format of text file which was in merged.txt only need to remove data from range (279,291) and its corresponding first columns data's row..

[Walter Roberson]

The above code removes all rows in which the second column is in (279,291), producing an output file which has two columns, with each row being one of the original rows.

If you just wanted to remove items from the second column leaving the first column entirely in place, then you would end up with a second column which was shorter than the first column, and MATLAB cannot store numeric arrays which do not have equal number of values in the columns.

I'm wondering if you are trying to exclude data in that range, or if what you want is only the data in that range?