Simple file I/O problem - help needed

I have imported a file in this format:

"title1", "title2"

"somestring1", "5423423"

"somestring2", "091843"

(without the white spaces shown here)

I need to read this file and get the number. I can do this very simply in a simple programming language but I have trouble in Matlab.

All I can think of is make a function like this:

function [ ] = getN( file )

    f = fscanf(file);
    %Find and get the number between the 3rd and 4th " with a check like if fscanf(file, '%c') is " do that

end

Yes I am beginner, I don't even know how to print :P

Answer 1

[Friedrich]

Hi,

I created a test file (test.txt) with the following content:

"title1","title2"
"somestring1","5423423"
"somestring2","091843"

And in MATLAB I used:

fid = fopen('test.txt','r');
data = textscan(fid,'%*s %*c %f %*c','delimiter',',','headerlines',1);
fclose(fid);

numeric_val = data{1}

numeric_val =

       5423423
         91843