read txt. file

i, please, i want send txt file ,then can one read it and place it in an array (each row consist of 4 elements) the problem that file contains digits and letters.

I can not write it correctly, each time different problem is appearing.

how I can send txt file?

thanks in advance

I want to add the following if my file contains names and digits as:

1800275327  Ashes of Time (1994)  757
1804018992  Jar, The (Khomreh) (1992)  758
1800262502  Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994)  759
1800263541  Stalingrad (1993)  760
1800261005  Phantom, The (1996)  761
1800260807  Striptease (1996)  762

I got it by getl, what I need : ex. from first row ,the first element 1800275327 and the third 757 and left the second. how get an array contains just two elements?

thanks

[Robert Cumming]

what have you tried?

[Fangjun Jiang]

You've been on the forum long enough to learn to use markup/format when posting question.

[huda nawaf]

simply,I want to read this file and place these data in an array

[huda nawaf]

how read this file into array:

this is sample of (txt.file):

1800275327 Ashes of Time (1994) 757

1804018992 Jar, The (Khomreh) (1992) 758

1800262502 Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994) 759

1800263541 Stalingrad (1993) 760

1800261005 Phantom, The (1996) 761

1800260807 Striptease (1996) 762

Answer 1

[osman]

use textscan

[huda nawaf]

thanks, it is good

but when the number of columns are not equal , how solve that?

ex.

1800247298 Toy Story (1995) 1

1800022746 Jumanji (1995) 2

the first row has three strings %s%s%s

and the second has two %s%s.

[huda nawaf]

please,

how get from this file just digits and ignore string?

i.e for example

from first row , i need just 1800247298 and 1

and so for the other rows

thanks

[huda nawaf]

thanks,

textscan is useful for me.

but , how can get second column or third,...?

I can just display first column by

names = textscan(fid,'%s%*[^\n]');

thanks