MATLAB: How to read a .txt file

Question

Hi The .txt file is as such

Name Lon Lat
xxxx 12.111 15.1122

It continues for seven rows. How to read this file using fileID and formatspec ?? I want to read these 3 columns and write into 3 separate data arrays. Please help.

Answer 1

 fid = fopen('filename.txt','rt');
 C = textscan(fid,'%s%f%f','headerlines',1);
 fclose(fid);
 name = C{1};
 LatN = C{2};
 LonN = C{3};