HOW TO IMPORT MATLAB DATA FROM Text files (* .txt)

Hello good day.

I have a text file with 8 columns.

I have a file in Matlab.

I want Matlab to take only the third column, then multiply it with a variable that is in the Matlab file.

How do I achieve this?

Greetings and thanks

TEXT FILE each column has 180 values

Elev. [deg.]  Azim. [deg.]  Abs(Gain)[      ]   Abs(Cross)[      ]  Phase(Cross)[deg.]  Abs(Copol)[      ]  Phase(Copol)[deg.]  Ax.Ratio[      ]    
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -90.000           0.000            1.336e-01           8.497e-02             303.859           4.863e-02             312.490           1.378e+01     
 -89.000           0.000            1.340e-01           8.535e-02             301.531           4.867e-02             312.418           1.092e+01     
 -88.000           0.000            1.350e-01           8.632e-02             299.208           4.872e-02             312.284           9.094e+00     
 -87.000           0.000            1.367e-01           8.792e-02             296.909           4.876e-02             312.087           7.846e+00     
 -86.000           0.000            1.390e-01           9.016e-02             294.655           4.880e-02             311.826           6.952e+00     
 -85.000           0.000            1.419e-01           9.305e-02             292.465           4.883e-02             311.503           6.294e+00     

Matlab file code example

 AFSC=(C1*exp(((i*k*x1)*sin(TETA).*cos(PHI)))

How I multiply the third column in text file to the code in Matlab ???

[Bob Thompson]

You can try these. I don't know if the last one will work.

Textscan

dlmread

readtable

[Ricardo Gutierrez]

Thank you !!!

Answer 1

[Victor Quezada]

Try something explained here: https://la.mathworks.com/help/matlab/import_export/ways-to-import-text-files.html

Or here: https://la.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/importdata.html

Answer 2

[Ricardo Gutierrez]

Thank you very much!!!