How do I use fscanf to read correctly?

Hi,

I am trying to use fscanf f to read a txt file.

I want

1 0.0 0.0

2 0.0 120.0

3 120.0 0.0

4 120.0 120.0

However when I put in my code

data = fscanf (inp, "%d %f %f" , [nNode,3]);

This is what shows up:

1 0 0

0 120 4

0 3 120

2 120 120.

Thank you so much!

Answer 1

[Piotr Balik]

Fscanf tries to read whole file at once, but does output it along rows, hence your problem occurs. You could try other maneuvers, but this simple code assumes you know how big is your file

for ii=1:nNode
    data(ii,:) = fscanf (inp, "%d %f %f" , [1,3])
end
fclose(inp)