Leaving out the header when reading in a text file

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Hi
I am trying to read in my text file using this:
fname=[PATHIN, textfile];
fid=fopen(fname);
for i=1:72
[M1(i,:)]=fscanf(fid,'%i', [1 6]);
end
Except, it gives me an error because in the first line of the text file is the header which lists what each column is. Is there a line I can include in this script to tell MATLAB to skip the first line of each of the text files? Or to ignore strings and only read in numbers?
Thanks a lot for the help in advance :)
Jan

Accepted Answer

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 18 Jun 2012
After the fopen(), add
fgetl(fid);
to read and discard the first line.

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