Trying to import data file

Hello I am a novice user. I am trying to read in a very large data file. It has 4 rows of headers and under the header are 6 columns of thousands of lines of data. I will need to use that data from specific columns in matrix math operations. I have attached a picture of the data to give an example. I think I am trying to create a matrix with 6 columns so I can pull a column anduse it in mathmatical operations. I have updated this section with the attached file I am trying to read if that is able to help give more insight into the issue. It should be noted that I'm using version 2016b.

[Image Analyst]

You forgot to attach a sample text file. Did you try importdata()?

[Tommy Pestolesi]

I feel so silly, importdata is exactly what I needed thank you!

Answer 1

[Joshua Taylor]

Depending on the format of the data (it looks similar to excel) you might be able to use readcell. This will read it into a cell array. If it is excel, there was a matlab function dedicated to reading from it here.