reading a txt file including dash

Hello,

I have a .txt file and want to read it in Matlab (actually to read the last raw) but I get the following error:

Error using cat Dimensions of matrices being concatenated are not consistent._

Error in cell2mat (line 75) m{n} = cat(2,c{n,:});

Error in STF_v0 (line 52)

final_data = cell2mat(textscan(fileID ,tkn,'delimiter', '\t', 'MultipleDelimsAsOne',true));

I imagine that is due to -- I have in the file. Any idea how I can fix this? The txt file looks like this and I have also attached it to the message.

Thank you

Below is the code I am using.

fileID = fopen(fullFileName);
        column_headers  = regexp(fgetl(fileID ),'\t+','split');
        tkn = repmat('%f',1,numel(column_headers));
        final_data = cell2mat(textscan(fileID ,tkn,'delimiter', '\t', 'MultipleDelimsAsOne',true));
        fclose(fileID );

Answer 1

[per isakson]

One way

fid = fopen( 'DI_WATER.txt' );
cac = textscan( fid, '%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f'             ...
            ,   'Headerlines',1, 'Delimiter','\t'   ...
            ,   'TreatAsEmpty','--', 'CollectOutput', true );
fclose( fid );
num = cac{1};

inspect result

>> whos num
  Name       Size            Bytes  Class     Attributes
  num       20x8              1280  double              

>> num(end,:)
ans =
   20.0000   61.0000    2.8975    0.2955   72.0764   72.0830    0.0056   24.5100
>>

[Very Determined]

Great! Thanks.