Write a MATLAB function to read in a le by name and return t

Write a MATLAB function to read in a le by name and return the double form of the grayscale

matrix representing your picture.

Solution

The first line of mydata.dat is

Read the first line of the file, ignoring the characters Type in the second field.

returns

Specifying Type%d in format causes the characters Type in the second field to be ignored, while the rest of the second field is read as a signed integer, in this case, 1.