how to read a matrix from a text file in matlab

Question

I have a text file which has 500 columns and 500 rows, of numerical(integer) values . Every element in the row is separated by a tab. I want to rea

Answer 1

Have you tired load with -ascii option?
For example

 a = load('myfile.txt', '-ascii'); % read the data
 a = a.'; %' transpose