How can I use the textscan command to read data below a body of text?

I want to use the textscan(fileID) command to read the data within a .txt file. However, the data begins after about 50 lines of text, and the number of lines of text differs with each .txt file. Can Matlab recognize a "flag" that always occurs before the data?

Example:

Line1;

Line2;

...

Line49;

(Line50)Time,MPitot(V),Static(V),Preston(V),Temperature(K),Voltage,Encoder totcnt,

2014/06/24 15:06:24, 0.242, 4.384, 0.219, 21.18, 8.346, 0,

2014/06/24 15:06:28, 0.242, 4.385, 0.219, 21.23, 8.382, 109,

2014/06/24 15:06:33, 0.242, 4.388, 0.220, 21.02, 8.376, 192,

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

If there is a line before that which is certain to show up and which starts with a known string, then you can use that string together with 'Time' as your CommentStyle parameter.

For example,

These are the voyages of
 ...
 ...
Time,MPitot(V),Static(V),Preston(V),Temperature(K),Voltage,Encoder totcnt,

then textscan(fid, LineFormatHere, 'CommentStyle', {'These', 'Time'})

[Jakob Graf]

Thanks, this worked great!