Assuming that lines starting with a '*' are some sort of block footers, here is one way to extract data blocks:
fid = fopen('myData.txt', 'r') ;
data = {[]} ; % Init cell array and 1st block.
dId = 1 ; % Data block ID/counter.
while ~feof(fid)
line = fgetl(fid) ;
if line(1) == '*' % Block end => new block+init.
dId = dId+1 ;
data{dId} = [] ;
continue ;
end
data{dId} = [data{dId}; sscanf(line, '%f %f %f %f %f %f').'] ;
end
data(end) = [] ; % Remove last, empty block.
fclose(fid) ;
Here is another solution based on a regexp split:
data = regexp(fileread('myData.txt'), '\*.+?e = [\-\d\.]+', 'split') ;
data(end) = [] ;
for dId = 1 : numel(data)
data{dId} = reshape(sscanf(data{dId}, '%f'), 6, []).' ;
end
Running either on your example outputs:
>> data
data =
[3x6 double] [2x6 double]
>> data{1}
ans =
1.0000 764.2981 3.0000 0 25.0000 103.0000
1.0000 764.2981 3.0000 0 25.0000 103.0000
1.0000 764.2981 3.0000 0 25.0000 103.0000
>> data{2}
ans =
1.0000 764.2981 3.0000 0 25.0000 103.0000
1.0000 764.2981 3.0000 0 25.0000 103.0000
