Hey,I have this huge data file and what i would like to do is , use strfind to match the string and capture the data followed by this string(no problem).my problem is that i have same string twice..how can i write a code to take first match first?

**edge

1 2 2

4 5 6

*edge

-1 1 1 -8 9 10

*edge

2 8 9

3 5 6

Answer 1

[Yogananda Jeppu]

A={'**edge'
'1 2 2'
'4 5 6'
'*edge'
'-1 1 1 -8 9 10'
'*edge'
'2 8 9'
'3 5 6'
}
 a=strfind(A,'edge')
find(~cellfun(@isempty,a))

This seems to work.

[kavitha sundu]

Nah,i dont want to put this in some cell array. I want to do this directly from the text file and a if clause to take the first value first