Re: import tab-delimited text file with header

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give as well as the output -- it is the difference between possible and
impossible to answer.

> The load function gives me the error "error: load: failed to read matrix
> from file EDCLaserDust_1cm".

load() works with data stored by save() or in a similar format.

> textread, dlmread, and csvread fail as well with errors that look like this
> (for a file with 4 columns):

I would try "x = dlmread('EDCLaserDust_1cm', '\t', 1, 0) 

type "help dlmread" to see what each parameter means.

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