MATLAB: Loading ascii data file with headers

asciidata loading

Hi,
I am having trouble loading a data file into matlab with some headers. Here is an sample of what I have:
Series_6_2
Sweep_6_2_1    4.924117200E+04   13:40:41.171
"Index"   "Distance[m]"      "I-tip[A]"      
      0    0.000000000E+00    1.647949222E-09
      1    3.100000000E-07    1.665649396E-09
      2    6.200000000E-07    1.679992701E-09
      3    9.300000000E-07    1.701660146E-09
      4    1.240000000E-06    1.721191412E-09
      5    1.550000000E-06    1.745300238E-09
      6    1.860000000E-06    1.777038627E-09
      7    2.170000000E-06    1.811218286E-09
      8    2.480000000E-06    1.844787545E-09
      9    2.790000000E-06    1.878662115E-09
     10    3.100000000E-06    1.914672865E-09
     11    3.410000000E-06    1.954650886E-09
     12    3.720000000E-06    1.990966725E-09
I would like to have just a matrix with the numerical values. Any ideas?

Best Answer

This should do it
fid = fopen('path/to/your/file.txt', 'rt');
Data = textscan(fid, '%d %f %f', 'headerLines', 3, 'CollectOutput', true);
fclose(fid);
Data= cell2mat( Data);
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