Import text files with extensions other than .txt

I have a text file shown below. The file has .vasp extension.

When I changed the extension to .txt, the file is opening by entering readtable('filename.txt'), could you please help me open this file without changing extension to .txt ?

Ti4 N4
1.0
        4.2535338402         0.0000000000         0.0000000000
        0.0000000000         4.2535338402         0.0000000000
        0.0000000000         0.0000000000         4.2535338402
    N   Ti
    4    4
Direct
     0.000000000         0.000000000         0.500000000
     0.500000000         0.000000000         0.000000000
     0.000000000         0.500000000         0.000000000
     0.500000000         0.500000000         0.500000000
     0.000000000         0.000000000         0.000000000
     0.000000000         0.500000000         0.500000000
     0.500000000         0.000000000         0.500000000
     0.500000000         0.500000000         0.000000000

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Use detectImportOptions to tell readtable to read the file as a text file.

One recent example from an earlier Answer:

opts = detectImportOptions('breast-cancer-wisconsin.data', 'FileType','text');
BCTable = readtable('breast-cancer-wisconsin.data', opts);

A similar approach should also work for your files.

See Text and Spreadsheet Files in the readtable documentation for more information.

[Gollapalli Prince]

Thank you so much. I could import the data successfuly.

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!