I have a text file which contains binary data in the following manner: 00000000000000000000000000000000001011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111000111100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111000111110000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111111110000000011100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111100111110000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110111110000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111000011100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111000011100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110000011100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111111100000000011100000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110111100000000000000000000000000000000 Plz note that each 1 or 0 is independent i.e the values are not decimal.I need to find the column wise sum of the file.There are 125 columns in all (here it is jumping onto the next line) and there are 840946 rows. I have tried textread,fscanf and a few other matlab commands but the result is that they all read each row in decimal format and create a 840946*1 array.I want to create a 840946*125 array to compute a column wise sum. Kindly help, Thanks!