how to load an ASCII file

I am trying to load an ASCII file that I downloaded from CST. But the usual load tricks that I do don't seem to work and I cannot seem to find the correct method to load the file. The ASCII text file has multiple columns and a the headers are seperated from the rest of the column with one row of --------- signs. This makes it harder to put the columns into variables. Is there any advice to fix this issue?

Thank you,

Nandakumar

[jonas]

Please upload the file or a smaller sample file.

[KSSV]

Read about textscan. This might be useful.

[Nandakumar Unnikrishnan]

I am attaching Trial 1.zip (since the txt file was too big). I tried textscan too, but that did not seem to work correctly. I could have used it wrong, but since I've not used it before I don't know for sure.

Answer 1

[jonas]

Based on the sample given in the comments

A = readmatrix('Trial 1.txt')

or better yet,

opts = detectImportOptions('Trial 1.txt','VariableNamesLine',1);
T = readtable('Trial 1.txt',opts);

for older versions you can use textscan

fid = fopen('Trial 1.txt')
out = textscan(fid,repmat('%f',1,10),'headerlines',2,'collectoutput',1)
fclose(fid)

[Nandakumar Unnikrishnan]

Neither of those seems to work:

This happens when I tried both. I only tried the first line for opts since if that didn't work the second line would be even worse. Any other ideas?

Thank you for trying to help though, it is much appreciated.

[Walter Roberson]

Either your installation of MATLAB is corrupt, or else you forgot to mention that you are using a release before R2019b (in which case we need to know which release you are using.)

[Nandakumar Unnikrishnan]

I am using the R2017a version. I did not realize that the versions would matter this much

[jonas]

I've updated the answer to include textscan()

[Nandakumar Unnikrishnan]

Thank you. This seems to work now