The ability to interpret data files that are partly in ASCII format and partly in binary format is not available with the MATLAB Import Wizard. To work around this issue, use the MATLAB file I/O functions to read and interpret such data files. For a complete list of file I/O functions in MATLAB, please refer to the following documentation page:
The following example code reads a file that has a few header lines in ASCII format using the FGETL function and then reads the subsequent binary formatted data using the FREAD function.
function [hdr,data] = myBinaryReader(filename,headerlines)
hdr = [];
fid = fopen(filename,'r');
for(i=1:1:headerlines)
hdr{i} = fgetl(fid);
end
data = fread(fid);
fclose(fid)
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