Converting an .m file to .mat file and plot the graph

I have 7 .ini files with content such as:

[text1]
1 = 500
2 = 400
3 = 600
4 = 700

and I want to take the number on the right side of the equal sign for each file and put them in individual columns. so i would have the index 1-n on one column and 7 separate columns of data extracted from those 7 .ini files. I would also like to do all this in a .mat file so i can plot the data afterwards.

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

To read your text file

fid=fopen('file.ini')
s=textscan(fid,'%s %s %s')
fclose(fid)
out=str2double(s{3})

[Victor]

how do i extract the values on the right side of the equal sign into an array? let's say the index goes up to 400 or 500...