Importing text to cell, avoid conversion to scientific notation

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I'm wondering how I can import a tab delimited text file into a cell without having it convert to scientific notation.
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 26 Oct 2015
Edited: Stephen23 on 26 Oct 2015
The standard MATLAB file-reading functions read data with the full double precision, and do not "convert to scientific notation". When data is displayed in the command window it is often shown in scientific notation, but this is not the same thing as how it is stored. You can use format to change how numeric values are displayed.
Summary: displaying numeric variables is a different topic to how they are stored.

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 26 Oct 2015
The format function dictates how data are displayed in the Command Window and tooltips. Full precision is maintained internally.
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Thorsten
Thorsten on 26 Oct 2015
You can use dlmread for this task.

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