Re: extracting numbers from a file, excluding fixed words

In article <1130608148.287048.151920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"dawenliu" <dawenliu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, I have a file with this content:
> xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxx
> 1
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 1
> 1
> 0
> (many more 1's and 0's to follow)
> yyyyy yyyyyy yyy yyyyyy yyyyy yyy
>
> The x's and y's are FIXED and known words which I will ignore, such as
> "This is the start of the file" and "This is the end of the file". The
> digits 1 and 0 have UNKNOWN length. I want to extract the digits and
> store them in a file. Any suggestions will be appreciated.


% open the file for reading text
fid = fopen(filename,'rt');

% read one line and discard it
fgetl(fid);

% read all the numbers
A = fscanf(fid,'%f');

% close the file
fclose(fid);

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