reading specific lines from a .txt file

hello,

if i have a .txt file how can i read specific lines from this file? for example, say my file looks like this:

1

2

3

4

5

...

100

listing numbers 1-100, 1 column, 100 rows. how can i read lines 10-15 and only print the numbers on those lines

thank you

i am using matlab R2019b

Answer 1

[Yazan]

Use readmatrix and specify the 'Range' option. Assuming that you have a one-column txt file, you can use the following:

A = readmatrix('yourtxtFileName', 'FileType', 'text', 'Range', [firstRow, 1, lastRow, 1])

[Joseph Kutteh]

thank you very much! it works perfectly