extract numbers from text file

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YUE
YUE on 14 Aug 2022
Commented: YUE on 14 Aug 2022
Hello, I have a text file that contains a series of lines as following form, but I only need the number data here, so how can I just read/import numbers from TXT files?
sub_name sub_id gender RT keypress cond
wangweiliang 103 1 9.138582e+00 4 5
wangweiliang 103 1 3.183194e+00 8 2
wangweiliang 103 1 2.689366e+00 1 1
wangweiliang 103 1 4.470684e+00 9 8
wangweiliang 103 1 3.016167e+00 4 4
wangweiliang 103 1 4.793164e+00 3 3
wangweiliang 103 1 2.943291e+00 1 6
wangweiliang 103 1 2.798679e+00 3 7

Answers (1)

Chunru
Chunru on 14 Aug 2022
T = readtable("data.txt");
T=T(:, 2:end)
T = 8×5 table
sub_id gender RT keypress cond ______ ______ ______ ________ ____ 103 1 9.1386 4 5 103 1 3.1832 8 2 103 1 2.6894 1 1 103 1 4.4707 9 8 103 1 3.0162 4 4 103 1 4.7932 3 3 103 1 2.9433 1 6 103 1 2.7987 3 7
x = table2array(T)
x = 8×5
103.0000 1.0000 9.1386 4.0000 5.0000 103.0000 1.0000 3.1832 8.0000 2.0000 103.0000 1.0000 2.6894 1.0000 1.0000 103.0000 1.0000 4.4707 9.0000 8.0000 103.0000 1.0000 3.0162 4.0000 4.0000 103.0000 1.0000 4.7932 3.0000 3.0000 103.0000 1.0000 2.9433 1.0000 6.0000 103.0000 1.0000 2.7987 3.0000 7.0000

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