Read tab spaced data e.g. textscan not working...

Hello,

I have this data but it won't read properly... I can go into every text file and delete the header but for hundreds of files, I would prefer to write a code that reads it correctly. There are three headerlines which I would like to discard, followed by three columns of numbers which I would like to store into arrays or a matrix.

 Tue Sep 08 13:35:32 2015

 Number of Points = 33801

 Depth (nm)  Load (µN)  Time (s)
 1.891960  168.877011  0.000000
 1.724944  170.487155  0.001000
 1.427851  166.373680  0.002000
 0.464998  163.441419  0.003000
 0.547294  159.472315  0.004000
 0.690833  160.371511  0.005000
 0.285518  164.715072  0.006000
 -0.199364  162.450703  0.007000
 -0.818151  163.764859  0.008000
 .....

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

[Jon]

Nevermind, I got it to work now.

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fileID = fopen('testy.txt');
C = textscan(fileID,'%*s%*s%*s%*s%*s\n%*s%*s%*s%*s%*s%*s%*s%*s%*s%*s');
d = textscan(fileID,'%n%n%n','delimiter','\t','headerlines',1,'treatAsEmpty', {'MAX'})

for some reason it needed " 'treatAsEmpty', {'MAX'} ". However, I'm not quite sure why it needed C and for d, the headerlines is 1 instead of 3.