reading a data from a text file

Hello, what whould be an effecient way of reading a data file that is sturctured as columns and rows that will later allow me to seperate and break up the rows into smaller components or parts , be able to give each component a unique name and later on to extract each component easily.

for example I have this data file attached, the seperation process is baisclly by rows (ex: from raw 1 to row 70 .. from 71 to 140..) I have seen many many ways that a data file can be read using them but I am not sure which one is the best for my purpose, eventually after breaking up these rows I want to be able to give each part a unique name. Is there an effecient way in matlab for such purpose?

[Adam Danz]

I would use readtable to read in the data. I would not break up the table but use row indexing instead. If you must break up the table, I would store the sub-tables in a cell array rather than using dynamic variable naming which is what you're describing (reasons not use dynamic variable naming).

[MA]

thank you that was helpul

[Adam Danz]

I'm happy to chip in.

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[Jeevan Kumar Bodaballa]

There are many ways to do that !

you can import data as coloumns with matlab user interface option. Then you can able slice according to your need

[MA]

thank you I will try that out as well ..