reading a txt with periodic strings

Good afternoon,

I am trying to read a txt file that has

• 11 lines of header
• 8000 values
• 2 lines of string
• 8000 values
• 2 lines of string
• 2 lines of string
• 8000 values
• ....

I know how I can skip the header but not how to skip those 2 string lines every 8000 values.

Thank you a lot

Anna

Answer 1

[Shivam Prasad]

Hi Anna,

I understand that the 8000 values contains the values as numeric types.

You can read all the values as strings from the text file, and ignore those values which are non-numeric. This can be checked by using the str2double function.

-> https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/373000-how-to-check-if-a-string-contains-only-numbers