Error for textscan command

Hello,

I have textfile, which has 3 columns of 73 rows each. I want to plot it on the graph. I am using the following command for the same

fid=fopen('error10.txt');
s=textscan(fid,'%g %g %g');
fclose(fid);
x1=s{1};
x2=s{2};
x3=s{3};
y=-1:0.05:1;
plot(x1,y,x2,y,x3,y);

But when I use this command I get the following error

Error using textscan
Badly formed format string.

How do I solve this. I tried different format:%f, %e gave the same error. %d gave output in 0, 1 and -1. My textfile is as follows:

0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
0 0 0 
-0.168681 0 -0.0293355 
-0.169835 0 -0.0335232 
-0.170417 0 -0.0293355 
0.014163 0 -0.0162582 
0.0143137 0 -0.0229441 
0.0148041 0 -0.0162582 
0.194393 0 0.0121311 
0.195878 0 0.0121311 
0.19889 0 0.0121311 
-0.0634259 0 -0.00827191 
0.0101036 0 -0.000894309 
0 0 -0.00827191 
0 0 0.00483092 
0 0 0.0174881 
0 0 0.00483092 
0 0 0.0189944 
0 0 0.00791766 
0 0 0.0189944 
0 0 0.00214116 
0 0 0.00686661 
-0.35176 0 0.00686661 
-0.519225 0 -0.003751 
-0.533674 0 -0.00777244 
-0.539253 0 -0.00721154 
0.0526248 0 -0.00634029 
0.051712 0 -0.0120258 
0.0512508 0 -0.00634029 
0.0274714 0 0.00128514 
0.0276167 0 0.00128514 
0.0280894 0 0.00128514 
0.00590875 0 -0.00868141 
0.0076921 0 -0.00868141 
0.0112886 0 0.000324675 
0.0206031 0 -0.000328407 
0.075283 0 -0.0512511 
0 0 -0.0316681 
0 0 -0.0701192 
0 0 -0.0701192 
0 0 -0.0322723 
0 0 -0.0473929 
0 0 -0.0530726 
0 0 -0.0473929 
0 0 -0.0101986 
0 0 -0.0101986 
0.42825 0 -0.0138587 
0.0198806 0 -0.027907 
0.0109786 0 -0.0169912 
0.00749787 0 -0.027907 
0.00576285 0 -0.0755837

Answer 1

[Ingrid]

s=textscan(fid,'%f%f%f');

worked on the data you provided

Answer 2

[Guillaume]

The simplest way to read that file would be with load:

 X = load('error10.txt');
 y = -1 : 0.05 : 1;
 plot(X(:, 1), y, X(:, 2), y, X(:, 3), y);

[Punit Gandhi]

I am getting the following error

Error using plot
Vectors must be the same lengths.

[Guillaume]

This has nothing to do with your original question. The problem is that the y is your example does not have the same number of elements as the number of rows in your textfile.

Only you know how to generate that y. One possible way:

y = linspace(-1, 1, size(X, 1)); %no idea if it's appropriate or not.