fscanf to read a file which contains an intensity image

Hello, I need to read a file that contains an double/float matrix in format

1,    1,   0.00,   0.00,   0.00,      2426 
(.....) 
248,  256,   0.00,   0.00,   0.00,      1839                                 

problem is that in the first 142 lines, there are strings which i have to ignore, and I'm not getting fscanf to work. Im not allowed to use textscan This is how im calling fscanf:

A = fscanf(fid, '%f %f %f %f %f %f', [6, inf])

In help fscanf, it says that the lines that arent in the specified format will be ignored, but that doesn't happen

Reply please, thank you!

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Answer 1

Where do you see that in the help for fscanf? The documentation says,

   If fscanf cannot match the format to the data, it reads only the portion that matches into A and stops processing.

Answer 2

How to skip 142 lines:

fid = fopen(FileName, 'r');
if fid == -1, error('Cannot open file: %s', FileName); end
for k = 1:142
  fgets(fid);
end