MATLAB: Problem while using textscan

textscan

My file has a string as the first row and numeric values as other rows, I can get rid of the header by using formatspec and N as given textscan help. I do not want to write %f four times while using the textscan again to read the numeric data. I have given the test code and please find the sample file. Thanks for helping
filename = 'S.txt'; fileID = fopen(filename); formatSpec = '%s'; N = 4; C_text = textscan(fileID,formatSpec,N); %% Read the numeric data in the file. C_data0 = textscan(fileID,'%f %f %f %f','CollectOutput',1); %% Here I do not want to write %f 4 times

Best Answer

If you do not want to type the format string, just use the dlmread funciton:
S = dlmread('S.txt', '\t', 1, 0)
S =
     1     1     1     1
     2     2     2     2
     3     2     3     3
There are many ways to read files in MATLAB.
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