MATLAB: Problems with import txt files as Matrix

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Hello guys,
I want to import a txt file in Matlab as matrix. The txt-file looks like:
0,5 1,2636e-003 -60,13 6,2933e-004 -1,0958e-003
1, 2,4385e-003 -112,91 -9,4937e-004 -2,2461e-003
1,5 2,6536e-003 -118,09 -1,2496e-003 -2,341e-003
2, 2,9698e-003 -123,29 -1,6301e-003 -2,4824e-003
2,5 3,4171e-003 -128,32 -2,1187e-003 -2,681e-003
3, 4,0399e-003 -133,03 -2,7566e-003 -2,9533e-003
3,5 4,9076e-003 -137,33 -3,6084e-003 -3,3262e-003
4, 6,1347e-003 -141,19 -4,7805e-003 -3,8448e-003
4,5 7,9257e-003 -144,62 -6,4617e-003 -4,5894e-003
5, 1,0681e-002 -147,63 -9,0215e-003 -5,718e-003
5,5 1,5305e-002 -150,29 -1,3292e-002 -7,5864e-003
6, 2,4349e-002 -152,62 -2,1621e-002 -1,1197e-002
6,5 4,886e-002 -154,69 -4,417e-002 -2,089e-002
7, 0,31779 -156,53 -0,2915 -0,12656
7,5 8,883e-002 21,81 8,2472e-002 3,3003e-002
8, 4,3338e-002 20,295 4,0648e-002 1,5032e-002
8,5 3,0694e-002 18,887 2,9042e-002 9,9359e-003
9, 2,5012e-002 17,549 2,3848e-002 7,5416e-003
9,5 2,2021e-002 16,238 2,1142e-002 6,1578e-003
10, 2,0453e-002 14,9 1,9765e-002 5,2591e-003
10,5 1,9533e-002 13,7 1,8978e-002 4,6264e-003
11, 1,9718e-002 12,136 1,9278e-002 4,1454e-003
11,5 2,1811e-002 9,8317 2,149e-002 3,7243e-003
12, 3,1873e-002 5,5674 3,1722e-002 3,0922e-003
12,5 3,5366e-002 170,88 -3,4919e-002 5,6045e-003
So used this:
type F50.txt;
M= readmatrix('F50.txt')
As result i get this:
M =
   1.0e+04 *
         0       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0001
    0.0001    0.0002       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0002
    0.0001       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0000
    0.0002    0.0002       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0005
    0.0002       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0001
    0.0003    0.0004       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0010
    0.0003       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0003
    0.0004    0.0006       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0008
    0.0004       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0006
    0.0005    0.0001       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0001
    0.0005       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0006
    0.0006    0.0002       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0012
    0.0006       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0001
    0.0007         0       NaN       NaN       NaN    1.2656
    0.0007       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0030
    0.0008    0.0004       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0050
    0.0008       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0009
    0.0009    0.0002       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0005
    0.0009       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0002
    0.0010    0.0002       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0003
    0.0010       NaN       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0006
    0.0011    0.0001       NaN       NaN       NaN    0.0001
How can i prevent factorizing like this.
Other Question is, how can i export txt files without the headlines? i only need the numbers.
Maybe you have a better method to import txt files.
Thanks for the help.

Best Answer

Read the file as text (e.g. with the textscan function), replace the comma with a point and convert the char array to double. The code below should help.
fid=fopen('data.txt','r');
data=textscan(fid,'%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s','HeaderLines',1);
fclose(fid);
data=[data{:}];%unwrap
%replace , with . and convert char to double
fun=@(str) str2double(strrep(str,',','.'));
output=cellfun(fun,data);
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