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From: "Felipe Sediles" <felipe.sediles.nospam@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Reading data into matlab
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:19:50 +0000 (UTC)
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"us " <us@neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message <f8bjea$jnq$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Felipe Sediles:
> <SNIP wants to import formatted text
> 
> > *Heading
> > ...
> > *Node
> > 1,	 -31.750000000,	  0.000000000,	  3.174999960
> > 2,	 -31.750000000,	  5.800000200,	  3.174999960
> > ***********more data************
> > 96615,	  5.352380838,	 -5.800000200,	  2.381249900
> > *Element, type=C3D20
> > Where the last line of data is the line starting with 96615...
> 
> an easy task - as long as you reassure CSSM that THIS is true:
> a data line consists of exactly four (4) numbers separated by a <,>...
> we just want to make sure that you do not waste our time by later modifying your format, which happens much too often in this NG...
> 
> us

The answer to your question is yes, with one qualifier: there is another, separate, block of data that is formated in this way within the same file.  I'd like to read this block of data as well, separately, though.