Question

I’m trying to load a large text file into MATLAB. The file has the following format:

567.1   339.8   13923645.0  1.3 0.6
568.0   338.5   13923646.0  1.8 0.9
569.4   336.9   13923647.0  2.4 1.1
570.8   337.1   13923648.0  3.3 1.0
570.8   338.8   13923649.0  4.3 0.6

This is meant to be imported as a [:,5] array. However, I’m using the command:

inputData = fscanf(fid, '%g\t').';

This causes the numbers to imported as a one-dimensional vector:

inputData = [567.1 339.8 13923645.0 1.3 0.6 568.0 338.5 13923646.0 1.8 0.9 ... etc]

How do I get it to retain its 5 column structure?

Answer 1

Try using the load command. It is the easiest in this case

   x = load('myFile.txt');