How can I Read all the details of my .txt file

I want to read my .txt file in MATLAB and then keep specific rows and columns, Also would it be possible to read .txt file without mentioning it's name.txt in the process of reading the file ?

Thanks

[Rik]

There are may examples of how to read the contents of a file that you can find online. What did you try and what errors did you get? This looks tab-delimited, so you should be able to read this to a matrix, or even a table with the built-in Matlab tools.

[mohsen moslemin]

Great, I tried A=tdfread('YMR.txt',',') Now I have 17559x727 Char would it be possible to select specific rows and columns? Thanks

Answer 1

[Rik]

If you use dlmread, you can define a number of rows you would like to skip. You can use '\t' to use tab as delimiter.

Answer 2

[mohsen moslemin]

Using dlmread, I'm getting this error, Mismatch between file and format string. when i removed top sectio nof my text file and only numbers left then i have access to all my data in matrix form, is there anyway I can automatically remove top section of my text file as i dont need it anyway.

Answer 3

[mohsen moslemin]

Ok I found another way around it, apparently you can read with A=tdfread then use cell2mat(struct2cell(A)) to have your matrix. that is what I needed thanks.