Remove the character " * " on a txt file to create a "clean" matrix

Hi guys.

Let me start wishing that everyone is ok due to COVID pandemic.

I have a .txt file with an excess of " * " carachters. What i want to do is to get rid oh those and create an 3 column matrix containing only the numbers. At this moment i have this:

    clc;
    clear all;
    close all;
    [name,path]=uigetfile('.txt','Select File To Open');
    file=[path,name];
    A=textread(file,'%f %f %f',1,'headerlines',3,'delimiter','*');

and it gives me the following error:

    Error using dataread
       Number of outputs must match the number of unskipped input fields.
    Error in textread (line 171)
    [varargout{1:nlhs}]=dataread('file',varargin{:}); %#ok<REMFF1>
    Error in Untitled (line 9)
    A=textread(file,'%f %f %f',1,'headerlines',3,'delimiter','*','whitespace','');

I don't know how to fix so if you could help me i'll appreciated. I've attached the txt file.

Thanks in advance a please, stay safe.

[Rahul Kumar]

please rewrite the program and remove '*' this, may this helpful to u

[David Martins]

Sorry, I didn't understand. The problem that i have is that i need to rewrite what it is inside the dump.txt file in a 3 column matrix.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

S = fileread('dump.txt');
S(S == '*') = '';
A = cell2mat( textscan(S, '%f %f %f', 'headerlines', 3));

[David Martins]

It works. Thank you so much!