Hi i need help in file conversion .txt to mat file

I have some data collected on machine which is in .txt format. I want to convert it to a mat file. Here is what the data looks like

 row1    Time  1_auto_mode  2_lift_target  3_ang_eve_mm  4_lift_command_per  5_LiftDir  6_CmdVel_mm_s  7_ACE_All_CtrlLaw_Switch  8_ACE_All_CtrlLaw_1_FL  9_ACE_All_CtrlLaw_2_L1AC  10_ACE_All_CtrlLaw_3_MRAC  11_ACE_All_CtrlLaw_4_PD  12_ACE_All_Target  13_ACE_All_BladeTipYDisp_RateTrasition  14_ACE_menu_target  15_ACE_mea_L1  16_ACE_mea_MRAC  17_ACE_lift_final_percent  18_lift_direct_final
row2     0.039991  0.000000  200000.000000  200380.000000  0.000000  0.000000  -3718.594742  4.000000  -3376.605662  -3538.103638  -7480609.559167  -3718.594742  200000.000000  200380.000000  10.000000  380.000000  380.000000  0.000000  0.000000
row3     0.059985  0.000000  200000.000000  200381.000000  0.000000  0.000000  -3743.363776  4.000000  -3508.938222  -3546.986694  -7493434.222546  -3743.363776  200000.000000  200381.000000  10.000000  381.000000  381.000000  0.000000  0.000000

similar fashion i have 2179 rows

can some one help me with this

[Walter Roberson]

You are going to have to specify what is header, what is text in a column, which columns are numeric, which columns to be ignored...

Are "row1" and "row2" literal, or do you mean that the first row is what follows there (the 19 fields), and the second row is the series of numbers that follow on that line? I do count 19 numeric values.

Answer 1

[Amith Kamath]

Although this may not be the best way to do this, but you can use IMPORTDATA to import all the data from the '.txt' file as a structure. This will save the text headers separately and the data separately. You can then save this structure as a '.mat' file. See: http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/importdata.html