reading only certain columns in text file

Hi! I am loading in a pretty large text file, and I want to omit column 1 from reading my data. I'm not excellent at matlab, so I was wondering if anyone had any input? Here is the first few points of the data:

    1.00000  0.00635  0.00787  0.43964  -0.08261  0.00528  -0.00278
    1.00000  0.00803  0.00775  0.43942  -0.08252  0.00421  -0.00421
    1.00000  0.00851  0.00894  0.43985  -0.08276  0.00385  -0.00183
    1.00000  0.00827  0.00742  0.43930  -0.08380  0.00308  -0.00238
    1.00000  0.00888  0.00641  0.43933  -0.08395  0.00333  -0.00296
    1.00000  0.00879  0.00674  0.43997  -0.08438  0.00262  -0.00333
    1.00000  0.01123  0.00507  0.44019  -0.08530  0.00098  -0.00317
    1.00000  0.01279  0.00406  0.44040  -0.08594  0.00070  -0.00253

(also the preview version is messing with how the data is supposed to show - sorry!) I do not want to include the first column in my data, only columns 2-7. Any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Try:

    fid = fonpen( filespec );
    cac = textscan( fid, '%*f%f%f%f%f%f%f', 'CollectOutput', true ) ;
    sts = fclose;

and see help on &nbsp textscan