Reading Specific Lines and Coulmns

Hi all,

I'm trying to read specific lines from a file and I want to translate them into array. My template is like that:

Curveplot
Time
Z-force
Contact Id
Sl 1 #pts=151
* Minval=  -3.710350e+003 at time=        0.002740
* Maxval=   2.669760e+003 at time=        0.001000
       0.000000e+000       0.000000e+000
       1.993210e-005       5.299370e+002
       3.999280e-005       1.217220e+003
       5.992490e-005       1.437750e+003
       7.998550e-005       1.571400e+003
       9.991760e-005       1.662600e+003
       1.199780e-004       1.707430e+003
       1.399100e-004       1.769070e+003
            ...                 ...
       2.959890e-003      -3.544220e+003
       2.979920e-003      -3.536640e+003
       2.999960e-003      -3.529960e+003
endcurve

I need to take the second coulmn values between the line 8 and the last.

I'm waiting for your suggestions and answers.

Answer 1

[Michael Haderlein]

Dear Köksal,

you can simply use textscan:

fid=fopen(filename);
data=textscan(fid,'%*f%f','delimiter','\t','MultipleDelimsAsOne',true,'headerlines',7)
fclose(fid);