About copying txt to matrix

Hello,

I have a.txt file like this;

   0.0  1548.52  /
  200.0  1530.29  /
  250.0  1526.69  /
  400.0  1517.78  /
  600.0  1509.49  /
  800.0  1504.30  /
 1000.0  1501.38  /
 1200.0  1500.14  /
 1400.0  1500.12  /
 1600.0  1501.02  /
 1800.0  1502.57  /
 2000.0  1504.62  /
 2200.0  1507.02  /
 2400.0  1509.69  /
 2600.0  1512.55  /
 2800.0  1515.56  /
 3000.0  1518.67  /
 3200.0  1521.85  /
 3400.0  1525.10  /
 3600.0  1528.38  /
 3800.0  1531.70  /
 4000.0  1535.04  /
 4200.0  1538.39  /
 4400.0  1541.76  /
 4600.0  1545.14  /
 4800.0  1548.52  /
 5000.0  1551.91  /

and I want to copy that to a matrix which has 2 columns and and rows that equal to number of lines. I would be grateful if you help. Thank you.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

filename = 'whatever.txt';
fid = fopen(filename, 'rt');
data = cell2mat( textscan(fid, '%f%f%*s') );
fclose(fid);

[Utku Agtas]

Thanks!

Answer 2

[Sudheer Bhimireddy]

Try this:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fscanf.html

Look at the examples given there you should be able to do it in the similar manner.

[Utku Agtas]

Thanks for the answer!