Is there way to start reading a text file from a couple rows down?

901 SPC/E water
 2703
    1SOL     OW    1   2.814   1.337   1.239  0.4720 -0.0436 -0.1794
    1SOL    HW1    2   2.909   1.308   1.228  0.7704  1.4608 -2.2011
    1SOL    HW2    3   2.767   1.330   1.151 -0.9544  0.4023  0.5178
    2SOL     OW    4   2.570   2.461   0.915  0.8090 -0.4597 -0.5450
    2SOL    HW1    5   2.641   2.515   0.959 -0.6187  0.1431  1.1554

I want to use textscan to place each column into a cell array. How do I ignore the first two lines of the text file?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Use 'Headerlines', 2 as an option in textscan()

[Philip]

Thanks Walter, I ended up using this.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Can't you just call fgetl() twice (and ignore the line you got back) before you call textscan()?