gain information from a .cnv file

I have some data stored in a .cnv file, the data is stored as follows:

#     <!-- Pressure voltage, Pressure, Strain Gauge -->
# name 0 = prSM: Pressure, Strain Gauge [db]
# name 1 = sal00: Salinity, Practical [PSU]
# name 2 = t090C: Temperature [ITS-90, deg C]
# datcnv_skipover = 0
# file_type = ascii
*END*
     -0.051     0.0312    15.4328 
     -0.061     0.0512    15.4448

Here we have some text at the top of the .cnv file and the data stored after the string END. Each column of the data is described by name 0 for column 1, name 2 for column 1, and so on... How could I extract these names i.e. create a variable named prSM, sal00, t090C respectively? The first hurdle is to extract the variable names, I can worry about extracting the data later. Many thanks.

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

fid = fopen('yourfile.cnv');
line1 = fgetl(fid);
res=line1;
while ischar(line1)
line1 = fgetl(fid);
res =char(res,line1)
end
fclose(fid);
for k=2:4;
  idx1=regexp(res(k,:),'=')
  idx2=regexp(res(k,:),':')
  name{k-1}=res(k,idx1+1:idx2-1)
end

[Richard]

You've specified k = 2:4, I'm guessing this wont work for my actual data, as there are 100+ lines of text above the first line specified above, thus I was hoping of a method that used 'name0', 'name1' etc to obtain the variable name...

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

then use for k=2:100

the names are: name{1}, name{2},... .. It's better then name1 name2 ..