MATLAB: How to read a non uniform text file in Matlab

Question

Hello!

I have a non uniform text file which I want to read in MATLAB. The file may be found here:

http://txtup.co/LyUl6

Can I create a matrix where cells could be left blank while some of them would recognize characters and others numbers?

From this file I wish to keep every second value (first column)

For example from every b group like the one following

b2

5.00 0.00 0.00

5.00 0.00

I only wish to keep the respective 5.0 value in a single column matrix along with all the other respective values from b1, b3, b4, …. , b48.

Thank you so very much!

Giorgos

Answer 1

If you have to do it just for this file you can make your life easy by not reading the file at all:

b = 0:5:235;