how to read a matrix from a text file in matlab

Question

I have a text file which has 500 columns and 500 rows, of numerical(integer) values . Every element in the row is separated by a tab. I want to rea

Answer 1

You can use importdata. Something like:

filename = 'myfile01.txt';
delimiterIn = '\t';
headerlinesIn = 1;
A = importdata(filename,delimiterIn,headerlinesIn);
A_trans = A';

You can skip headerlines if your file does not have any haeder.. (It is the number of lines before the actual data starts)

Taken from Matlab documentation, improtdata