.txt string file loading problem

Hi, I have a text file with 5 columns and 73 rows, and I creat this file from .xlsx format in excel. Now when I load this file with;

a = importdata('Input.txt')

this file is load in only 1 column instead for 5 columns, and the dimension of my my variable a is equal to 73*1. I separate the the input strings with tab and 8 spaces with nothing work for me.

Please guide me, I am new to MATLAB. Thanks in advanced.

Answer 1

[Jeff Johnson]

It looks like you need to add a delimiter argument to your function call. From the help documentation for importdata:

importdata(FILENAME, DELIM) interprets DELIM as the column separator in
    ASCII file FILENAME. DELIM must be a string. Use '\t' for tab.

If your data is tab-separated, try

 a = importdata('Input.txt','\t')

In the future, you can find the help documentation for any function by typing

 help functionName