How to load .dat file in matlab?

hello, am new to matlab. am trying to load .dat file and am getting an error. am using this code clc; clear all close all fs=800; x=load('ecg.dat'); x0 = downsample(x,3);

subplot(2,1,1) stem(x) title('Original Signal')

subplot(2,1,2) stem(x0) ylabel('down sampled')

am getting error as Error using load Unknown text on line number 1 of ASCII file C:\Documents and Settings\MTech3rd_sem\My Documents\MATLAB\ecg.dat "Ô$ßü$²".

Error in down2 (line 6) x=load('ecg.dat');

Answer 1

[Stalin Samuel]

Reading *.dat files into MATLAB