read data from different rows

I would like to read from a text file. But i need to be able to skip a certain number of rows, read some data skip more rows and read some data and so on. thank you

[Mazen Arafeh]

1. The file i have is made of charecters and floating number.

2. How can i skip lines?

[Walter Roberson]

Please do not open duplicate Questions; it only leads to duplication of effort.

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

There are many ways. You can use textscan() to read line by line so you can skip any line you want.

If the file is not huge, you can read it once. Doing the skip in MATLAB matrix is much easier.

A easy try is to use the impordata() function.

a=importdata('MyDataFile.txt')