texscan multiple variables

Hello, I use texscan as something like

d = cell2mat(textscan(fid, '%f %f %f'));

My problem is that I have many variables of type f, say 30 of them, and I want somehow to input the number which indicates how many of them I need rather than typing %f %f %f %f %f etc. etc. every time. Any hint?

Chiara

Answer 1

[Matt Tearle]

fmt = repmat('%f',1,30);
d = cell2mat(textscan(fid,fmt));