How to load this .dat file data into matrix format?

VARIABLES = "x", "y", "displacement-x", "displacement-y"

ZONE T="Frame 0", I=214, J=134

6.000000 6.000000 0.868404 -6.438388

18.000000 6.000000 0.732914 -6.282934

30.000000 6.000000 0.830558 -6.557491

42.000000 6.000000 0.741238 -7.352953

54.000000 6.000000 0.850848 -6.662383

66.000000 6.000000 0.765438 -6.889948

78.000000 6.000000 0.639938 -6.493814

90.000000 6.000000 0.459958 -5.778019

I want to import this dat file with name 'B00050.dat' with the 'VARIABLES' titles as a header, above the 4 columns of numbers below withouth the 'ZONE T. Could you please guide me to the right matlab commands to use so far i've got the following

filename= 'B00050.dat'; 
 M= dlmread(filename);

there's a lot more needed, but not sure as my matlab skills are not adequate . Thanks

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

This might help:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/importdata.html#btldf1f-1

[Ernest Adisi]

Hi, I tried the example but it only seems to give me the header lines without the numbers

filename = 'B00050.dat'
delimiterIn = ' ';
headerlinesIn = 2;
A = importdata(filename,delimiterIn,headerlinesIn);