Reading a matrix from a .txt file

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Giovanni Filomeno
Giovanni Filomeno on 16 Jan 2021
Commented: Ive J on 17 Jan 2021
Good morning everyone. I'm trying to import in matlab a matrix from a text file. In my file, there are only two columns of values, separated by a single space. Here I report the first two rows of the file:
("Time Step" "Vertex Average X Velocity")
439 -0.1588049829006195
440 -0.157896234563214
I tried to import the matrix through
readmatrix('myfile.txt')
but I ony obtain
ans =
NaN
NaN
NaN
But if I put a comma between the two columns, Matlab reads the matrix correctly. Is there a way to import this matrix without putting commas between every column?
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Image Analyst on 16 Jan 2021
Ivs, put down in the Answers section so you can earn more points after Giovanni accepts your answer. You can't get any points for a comment up here.

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Ive J
Ive J on 17 Jan 2021
Try this
myMat = readmatrix('myfile.txt', 'delimiter', ' ');

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