I usually use sed to straighten the data and then do the load
thing....
something like:
cmd=['sed -n -e "/^ *[0-9]/p" ' fname ">" Tfname];
if (system(cmd,1))
error("Fehler 1");
end
xx=load(Tfname);
where fname is the filename and tfname is some temporary filename
which I remove afterword with....
cmd=["rm " Tfname];
if (system(cmd,1))
error("Fehler 4");
end
but this depends on what structure do you want afterward. I
sometimes have the coulumnames in the file as well and create a
cellarray with the datapoints called Data.X, Data.Y etc. as well.
Hope this helps
Christoph