Leaving out the header when reading in a text file

Hi

I am trying to read in my text file using this:

   fname=[PATHIN, textfile];
        fid=fopen(fname);

            for i=1:72
            [M1(i,:)]=fscanf(fid,'%i', [1 6]);
            end

Except, it gives me an error because in the first line of the text file is the header which lists what each column is. Is there a line I can include in this script to tell MATLAB to skip the first line of each of the text files? Or to ignore strings and only read in numbers?

Thanks a lot for the help in advance :)

Jan

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

After the fopen(), add

   fgetl(fid);

to read and discard the first line.