reading ascii data

[de Almeida, Valmor F.]

Hello,

I would like to read an ascii data file with 3 columns of integers
separated by a space, and an unknown number of rows into 3 vectors or a
matrix with 3 columns.

I have tried 

[a,b,c,count] = fscanf(fid,"%i %i %i","C");

But this only reads one row of the file and I have to put it into a
while loop with an eof check. Is this a correct assessment?

Alternatively,

[val,count] = fscanf(fid,"%i %i %i");

reads the whole file as a column vector. I could break up the vector
into 3 vectors or a matrix with 3 columns but I wonder if this could be
done by the file reader function itself.

Thanks,

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Valmor