import multi type data in MATLAB

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SARAH ZAVAREH
SARAH ZAVAREH on 29 Jun 2011
How I can import a text file in MATLAB including 256 columns: first column is string and other columns are numeric data.

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Gerd
Gerd on 29 Jun 2011
Hi Sarah,
depending on your specific file you can use
fid= fopen('File.txt');
textscan(fid,'%s%f.....');
fclose(fid);
Gerd
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Jan
Jan on 29 Jun 2011
Data = textscan(fid,['%s' repmat('%f',1,255)]);
Then Data is a cell, which contains the different columns as elements. See "help textscan".
SARAH ZAVAREH
SARAH ZAVAREH on 29 Jun 2011
Thank you all, it works :)

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