how to read text file and to ignore the first 10 rows and to take only the 4rth and 5th columns?

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how to read text file and to ignore the first 10 rows and to take only the 4rth and 5th columns? from this file: http://iopscience.iop.org/0266-5611/17/6/301/media/dielTM_dec4f.exp
i tried to use textscan but i don't really understand how to and it looks a bit complicated
any other solution or how to do this?

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per isakson
per isakson on 15 Sep 2014
Edited: per isakson on 15 Sep 2014
Try
cac = textscan( fid, '%*f%*f%*f%f%f%*f%*f', 'Headerlines', 10 );
Doc says: &nbsp %* &nbsp Skip the field. textscan does not create an output cell for any field that it skips.
That's not too complicated!
&nbsp
"any other solution or how to do this?" &nbsp None less complicated than textscan - AFAIK

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 15 Sep 2014
Maybe try importdata()
delimiterIn = ' ';
headerlinesIn = 10;
myStructure = importdata(filename,delimiterIn,headerlinesIn);
data = myStructure.data;
Worked for me.
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 15 Sep 2014
You could do it all in just 2 lines instead of the 3 required for textscan(). Plus you don't need to figure out all that stuff about '%*f%*f%*f%f%f%*f%*f' since it figures it out for you.

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