text file above 43 mb

can u please tell me how to read a text file greater tha 43mb in matlab , containing more than 5 million rows and 4 columns

Answer 1

[Ive J]

MATLAB offers lots of ways to read text files, including textscan, readtable, fileread or low-level I/O (fread). However, when you deal with larger files (note that 43 mb is not even close to being large, maybe 2 GB or larger), datastore or memmapfile are quite useful. For start, you can check

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