That sounds as if you want to solve this again, although it was extensively answered by Azzi Abdelmalek and me (<http://www.mathworks.de/matlabcentral/answers/143308-i-have-to-detect-the-startrow-and-endrow-from-a-file-automatically-from-a-txt-file)>. In case it's the same question, please respond in the other thread.
In case it's a different question because now your file has numbers and text mixed:
fid=fopen(filename);
curline=fgetl(fid);
result=[];
while ischar(curline)
if ~isempty(curline) && ~any(isstrprop(curline,'alpha'))
result=[result;str2num(curline)];
end
curline=fgetl(fid);
end
fclose(fid);
