How to read ascii with less-than (<) symbol

The Matlab import wizard strips the "<" symbol and imports only the number behind it. I would like to know where these symbols appear so I can flag the calculations which contain these values. Does anyone know of a method which is easier than reading and parsing the ascii file line by line?

Thanks!

Answer 1

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I rarely use the Import Wizard, preferring textscan (or for Excel files xlsread).

If your file is readable with textscan, I would read that column in as a string, and then do the ‘<’ detection and numeric conversion in a separate step.