Obsolete syntax warning in dlmread - matlab

I'm completely new to Matlab, so I've been tying out the various IO functions to see how they operate. Here I try to construct a matrix from a tab-delimited spreadsheet:
%Matrix test
M = dlmread('MyFile.txt', '\t', 1);
disp(M);
The output:
>> MatrixTest
Warning: Obsolete syntax. C must be specified with R.
> In dlmread (line 91)
In MatrixTest (line 2)
0.3800 0.2900 0.0400 0.2900 -22.2000
0.4600 0.4500 0.0200 0.0700 -22.2500
0.4900 0.1500 0.0200 0.3400 -66.7700
0.1000 0.8100 0.0200 0.0700 -81.7500
0.1200 0.5700 0.0500 0.2600 -49.5000
0.3000 0.6000 0.0300 0.0700 -57.4700
0.4200 0.0900 0.0100 0.4800 -56.3500
0.2600 0.2800 0.2900 0.1700 -79.7900
0.4800 0.0300 0.4000 0.0900 -76.8500
0.2600 0.0100 0.1400 0.5900 -28.6600
0.2900 0.5000 0.1900 0.0200 -21.5700
0.1400 0.8300 0.0200 0.0100 -31.2700
0.0200 0.4700 0.1300 0.3800 -93.1500
0.0400 0.5000 0.3500 0.1100 -16.9500
0.1100 0.0100 0.1300 0.7500 -11.0500
0.2000 0.6700 0.1200 0.0100 -44.7900
0.3900 0.3600 0.1700 0.0800 -18.7300
0.1500 0.3300 0.0600 0.4600 -48.4500
0.3900 0.0800 0.2300 0.3000 -60.6100
0.3400 0.3600 0.2200 0.0800 -33.0800
0.1400 0.7800 0.0200 0.0600 -60.5000
0.3600 0.6300 0.0100 0 -46.6700
0.1600 0.4800 0.0700 0.2900 -38.2800
The code works as expected, but apparently I've used obsolete syntax (or maybe the issue is with the dlmread function?). Anyway, what is the more appropriate way to perform this same operation?
Thanks in advance.

Try using this
%Matrix test
M = dlmread('MyFile.txt', '\t', 1, 0);
disp(M);
Here, for ignoring first column - use:
%Matrix test
M = dlmread('MyFile.txt', '\t', 1, 1);
disp(M);
Thanks

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http://oi64.tinypic.com/10e0di0.jpg
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May I know what is error shown below?
Error using scatter3 (line 77)
C must be a single color, a vector the same length as X, or an M-by-3 matrix.
It appear when I write a code:
scatter3(points(:,1),points(:,2),points(:,3),50,color,'fill');
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0.9216 0.7490 0.5216
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.5922 0.5216 0.4118
0.9176 0.7020 0.4392
0.1412 0.1882 0.1569
0.7137 0.5176 0.3451
0.5765 0.3294 0.1176
0.6902 0.4471 0.2275
0.6039 0.5490 0.4078
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.1529 0.2471 0.2314
0 0 0
0.4784 0.4902 0.3961
0 0 0
0.2039 0.1765 0.0745
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.1725 0.2314 0.2000
0.8118 0.5569 0.2980
0 0 0
0.9098 0.6902 0.4745
0.2588 0.2314 0.1176
0.0902 0.1490 0.1137
0.1725 0.1333 0.0784
0.5725 0.5843 0.5020
0 0 0
0.8510 0.6196 0.3843
0.3961 0.3608 0.2314
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.4235 0.3843 0.2471
0.2824 0.2824 0.1294
0.6667 0.6745 0.6157
0.3020 0.2588 0.1451
0.0863 0.0627 0.0314
0.6039 0.5216 0.3843
0.7686 0.5804 0.3569
0.7608 0.5804 0.3569
0.2824 0.2000 0.0784
0.5255 0.4392 0.3490
0 0 0
0 0 0
0.2353 0.2275 0.1333
0 0 0
0.6118 0.5255 0.4275
0 0 0
0.6118 0.6118 0.6118
0.9216 0.7490 0.5216
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.5922 0.5216 0.4118
0.9176 0.7020 0.4392
0.1412 0.1882 0.1569
0.7137 0.5176 0.3451
0.5765 0.3294 0.1176
0.6902 0.4471 0.2275
0.6039 0.5490 0.4078
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.1529 0.2471 0.2314
0 0 0
0.4784 0.4902 0.3961
0 0 0
0.2039 0.1765 0.0745
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.1725 0.2314 0.2000
0.8118 0.5569 0.2980
0 0 0
0.9098 0.6902 0.4745
0.2588 0.2314 0.1176
0.0902 0.1490 0.1137
0.1725 0.1333 0.0784
0.5725 0.5843 0.5020
0 0 0
0.8510 0.6196 0.3843
0.3961 0.3608 0.2314
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.4235 0.3843 0.2471
0.2824 0.2824 0.1294
0.6667 0.6745 0.6157
0.3020 0.2588 0.1451
0.0863 0.0627 0.0314
0.6039 0.5216 0.3843
0.7686 0.5804 0.3569
0.7608 0.5804 0.3569
0.2824 0.2000 0.0784
0.5255 0.4392 0.3490
0 0 0
0 0 0
0.2353 0.2275 0.1333
0 0 0
0.6118 0.5255 0.4275
0 0 0
0.6314 0.6431 0.6392
0.9059 0.7098 0.4941
0.7804 0.7804 0.7804
0.9333 0.7137 0.4784
0.7765 0.5294 0.2784
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.6078 0.5176 0.3922
0.7373 0.5608 0.3333
0.7216 0.5176 0.3020
0.4353 0.4000 0.3608
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.0627 0.1882 0.1412
0.2157 0.2118 0.2392
0.6392 0.4000 0.1922
0.1098 0.1647 0.1569
0.5765 0.5843 0.5373
0.6706 0.4235 0.2510
0.1412 0.1176 0.0471
0.5529 0.5569 0.5216
0 0 0
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.8667 0.6588 0.4392
0.7804 0.5137 0.2941
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.1686 0.1333 0.0588
0.8196 0.6000 0.3725
0.1961 0.1922 0.0902
0.5765 0.4980 0.3804
0.2039 0.2902 0.2667
0.4627 0.4039 0.2588
0.2706 0.2431 0.1216
1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
0.7686 0.5647 0.3451
0 0 0
0.5843 0.5137 0.4118
0.1569 0.1686 0.0941
0.2627 0.1451 0.0784
0.6627 0.4510 0.2706
0.2588 0.1961 0.1216
0.1686 0.1176 0.0510
0.5647 0.5686 0.5451
0.5608 0.5686 0.5255
0.5176 0.5373 0.4784
0.6549 0.4784 0.2784
0.5843 0.5922 0.5686
0.7490 0.7647 0.7333
0.1569 0.1255 0.0431
0.2471 0.2039 0.1451
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