Extract selected data from .dat file

Hello,

I am using a .dat file from abaqus. my file looks like:

" Various lines containing texte.

Three columns of headers (ex: x, y, z)

Two Columns of data. The middle column is empty.

Various lines of texte again. "

So I would like to extract the numerical data, which is somewhere in the middle of text. The y column is empty. Does anyone have a solution please ?

Cheers

[dpb]

Delimited or not? Fixed width column or not?

Show a short sample of the file; else't all we can do is guess...

Of course, you can always try importdata and see what happens...