Reading in a text file with date and time

I have a text file (e.g. discharge.txt) that I wish to read in in the following format:

Date  Discharge (m3/s)  
09/04/2014 10:15  9.587*
09/04/2014 10:30  9.497*
09/04/2014 10:45  9.363*
09/04/2014 11:00  9.231*
09/04/2014 11:15  9.143*

I would ideally wish to obtain 6 vectors.

• A vector showing the integer value for month
• A vector showing the integer value for year
• A vector showing the integer value for day
• A vector showing the integer value for hour
• A vector showing the integer value for minute
• A vector showing the value for discharge (no asterisk)

Thanks!

Answer 1

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[m,d,y,h,mn,disch]=textread('discharge.dat','%d/%d/%d %f*');

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