MATLAB: Creating an array from a txt file

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sorry if this is a silly question, but I have just started to use matlab.
I am trying to create an array using the txt file 'ifng.txt' however I want to remove the first row as it is just headers, this is what I have so far
function output = IFNG2016 
fid= fopen('ifng.txt','r');
A = textscan(fid, '%f', 'HeaderLines', 1)
however it just prints
A= [0x1 Double]
any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks

Best Answer

The reason your textscan does not work is simply because the first column (the probe name) is not made of numbers so the '%f' format fails on that. This would work (and is much better than the whole file parsing suggested by Andreas):
fid= fopen('ifng.txt','r');
A = textscan(fid, ['%s', repmat('%f', 1 , 25)], 'HeaderLines', 1);
Anumbers = [A{2:end}];
Note that in the header, your file uses a combination of tabs and spaces as the delimiter. If you actually fixed that, then reading the file would be as simple as:
t = readtable('ifng.txt', 'Delimiter', 'tab');  %or 'space' if you replace the tabs by spaces
As a bonus you get the header read properly as variable names, so you don't even need to skip it.
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