Re: Loading ASCII data files quickly

[Francesco Potorti`]

>I've got a few data files with a short header followed by two colums  
>of data (see example below). The header data is marked by '*' signs,  
>like this:
>
>------------------------------
>* TMD data written by MATAA on 10-Aug-2009 15:37:39
>* MSW, 0 deg., no filter
>0      -6.49888e-08
>1.04167e-05    -1.77097e-07
>2.08333e-05    2.53872e-07
>3.125e-05      9.02216e-07
>4.16667e-05    1.13457e-06

Have you tried dlmread?

-- 
Francesco Potortì (ricercatore)        Voice: +39 050 315 3058 (op.2111)
ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR          Fax:   +39 050 315 2040
via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa         Email: address@hidden
(entrance 20, 1st floor, room C71)     Web:   http://fly.isti.cnr.it/