read text file into matlab

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/iris/iris.data

How can we read that kind of data set into matlab? I want just the numerical values. May be to a 4x200 matrix

Answer 1

[Hikaru]

Use textscan.

FID = fopen('iris.txt')
C_data0 = textscan(FID,'%f %f %f %f %s', 200, 'Delimiter',',')
numericVector = cell2mat(C_data0(:,1:4)) %ignores the last column of strings

[Pradeep Sanjeewa]

Thanks a lot. it worked.

[Pradeep Sanjeewa]

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