How can I get MATLAB to output a part of a dat file the proper way?

I want my output to come out exactly as shown in the attached picture. How can I do this?

This is my code:

clear all; 

clc; 

tempdata = fopen('rec0506a.dat','r') ;

fgetl(tempdata); 

fgetl(tempdata);   

T = fscanf(tempdata, '%*f %f %f %f  \n')

fclose(tempdata);

[Geoff Hayes]

Ruten9 - you did not attach a picture. Please make sure that you press the Attach File button once you have chosen your file. Also, please describe the format of your text file. Does each row have four floating point numbers that are delimited by a space character? Are the first two lines header rows that you wish to exclude (which explains the two calls to fgetl)?

[Ruten9]

I've attached the file now.

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Ruten9 - why not try using importdata where you can specify the delimiter and the number of header rows (to ignore). For example, try using the following

 A = importdata('rec0506a.dat', ' ', 2);

where we assume that the column separator is the space character and that there are there are two header lines. (This assumes that your dat file is ASCII.)