Question

My file format is *.Vt2 , It’ strong ground motion record.
It can be download at http://peer.berkeley.edu/smcat/search.html
choose a earthquake then download the record of any station .Data like this:

PEER STRONG MOTION DATABASE RECORD. PROCESSING BY PACIFIC ENGINEERING.
TAIWAN SMART1 (45) 11/14/86, SMART1 C00, EW
VELOCITY TIME HISTORY IN UNITS OF CM/S. FILTER POINTS: HP=0.1 Hz LP=25.0 Hz
NPTS= 4000, DT= .01000 SEC
.9437205E-03 .1497919E-01 .3328475E-01 .5111011E-01 .6865002E-01
.8659123E-01 .9975034E-01 .1072606E+00 .1168364E+00 .1217983E+00
.1135203E+00 .8993586E-01 .6435175E-01 .3819334E-01 .1840042E-01

What I want to do is skip the 4 headerlines and read the numbers (by row),then save them in a
N×1 matrix M. But I don’t know how to make it.
Any help is greet

Answer 1

Try:

x=importdata('filename.txt');

Your data will be:

x.data