Matlab Read .txt files

Hello,

I have a Matlab txt file containing lines that I want to read as number but also the lines I want to read as text. For instance, my .txt file reads:

8
6
01
02

I need those "values" and for importing those in my code, I used importdata built in function. However, Matlab recognizes the third line of .txt file as 1 (number) and not as 01 (string).

How can I force Matlab to give me the string '01' and '02' in the 3rd and 4th row of txt file?

Thank you in advance

[KSSV]

Try textscan.

[Walter Roberson]

If you are using a new enough release, use readlines() and then str2double() indexing with appropriate indices of lines you want to consider numeric.

[sko]

This works perfectly for me!

Thank you