MATLAB: Read text file into matlab

text file

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/iris/iris.data
How can we read that kind of data set into matlab? I want just the numerical values. May be to a 4×200 matrix

Best Answer

Use textscan.
FID = fopen('iris.txt')
C_data0 = textscan(FID,'%f %f %f %f %s', 200, 'Delimiter',',')
numericVector = cell2mat(C_data0(:,1:4)) %ignores the last column of strings