Extracting Data from a Comma Separated List

I would to take data from a list in the following form and store it in vectors:

1;2
3;4
5;6
7;8

However, I need the data to be stored in vectors in the following fashion so that it can be plotted:

[1 3 5 7]

and

[2 4 6 8]

What is the best way to go about doing this?

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Where your data are stored? a text file ? or what kind of file?

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

If your data are stored in a text file

data=dlmread('file.txt')
r1=data(:,1)'
r2=data(:,2)'

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Have you tried dlmread():

% Read from file with semicolon delimeter.
array2d = dlmread(filename, ';');
% Get column vectors and transpose into row vectors.
array1 = array2d(:, 1)';
array2 = array2d(:, 2)';