MATLAB: Using textscan to load numbers from txt file

dataeconometricsMATLABtextscan

I am using textscan
tmp = textscan(fid,'%4f %q %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f','treatAsEmpty', 'n/a');
to load data which looks like (skipping few columns)
1950                     "Afghanistan"        8150.368
I get the year and the country without problems, but the third number is instead loaded as 0.8150…
I tried using something like %6.3f for the format input, but that just returns some dimension mismatch.
What am i doing wrong ?

Best Answer

Your answer is correct. Maybe its displaying something like
ans =
   1.0e+03 *
    8.1504
    8.2845
    8.4253
Check this
a=tmp{3};
a(1)
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