textread does not read all rows

I am using textscan to read numerical values from a textfile with 8 header lines above 4 columns.

fid = fopen('free.txt');
V = textscan(fid,'%f%f%f%f','Headerlines','8');

The columns in the original textfile have 1278 rows whereas the cells in V have only 1230 rows.

Does anyone know a solution to this problem?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

textscan would stop reading if it encountered a position that could not be interpreted as a number. Check out lines 1238 and 1239 of the file.