textread and ignoring columns
okay, say you have a .csv file (comma separated variable, excel likes those) and for come reason you don't want to use csvread. i found textread to be more flexible.
roka collected some data that has 22 headerlines, and then 4 columns of data. i only care about the first column of data. so this is what i used to read in the file:
[kilograms] = textread(namestr,'%f %*f %*f %*f', 'delimiter', ',',