How come fscanf is only reading the first row of the given txt file?

I'm trying to extract the data in the given text file. The comments are in the file just for reference and need to be ignored when inputting into matlab. I attempted to do this through the fscanf function but it would only extract the first row. I was only being returned [4;3] which is the format I want it to be in but I would like it to do this for every row. I also attempted this by using a for loop a fgetl but the string comments make this difficult to put into the needed vector form.

[Walter Roberson]

Please show your fscanf() call.

[Aggie1313]

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fid=fopen('FiniteElementData.txt')
A=fscanf(fid,'%f')

[Walter Roberson]

fscanf() stops reading when it encounters an item that does not match the format, and it puts the item back into the stream. In your case it would be the comments at the end of the first line that block it.

[Aggie1313]

Is there a way that fscanf can be used for specific rows so that I can extract what I want in a for loop?

[Walter Roberson]

No. fscanf() always moves forward from the current position. It stops reading as soon as the format does not match; it also stops reading as soon as any given count is complete, even if there are more items in the format.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

A = fscanf(fid,'%f%f%*[^\n]', [5,2]);
A2 = fscanf(fid,'%f%f%f%*[^\n]',[4 3]);
junk = fgetl(fid);
A3 = fscanf(fid,'%f',[1 1]);
junk = fgetl(fid);
A4 = fscanf(fid,'%f',[1 A3]);
junk = fgetl(fid);
A5 = fscanf(fid,'%f',[1 1]);
junk = fgetl(fid);
... that sort of thing