MATLAB: Leaving out the header when reading in a text file

fscanfheadertextfile

Hi
I am trying to read in my text file using this:
   fname=[PATHIN, textfile];
        fid=fopen(fname);
            for i=1:72
            [M1(i,:)]=fscanf(fid,'%i', [1 6]);
            end
Except, it gives me an error because in the first line of the text file is the header which lists what each column is. Is there a line I can include in this script to tell MATLAB to skip the first line of each of the text files? Or to ignore strings and only read in numbers?
Thanks a lot for the help in advance 🙂
Jan

Best Answer

After the fopen(), add
   fgetl(fid);
to read and discard the first line.
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