How can I read unformated text from txt file?

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I am trying to read a txt files with annotations in order to process EEG signals. I attach the txt file What I would like to have is something in the lines of a structure or matrix where I could have in the same or different structures the headers and the time. Something along the lines of:
[Occhi aperti , 361.078
Stringe i pugni , 370.859
Rilascia i pugni , 381.031
Occhi chiusi , 405.219
Occhi aperti , 580.797...]
Thank you very much

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Elizabeth Reese
Elizabeth Reese on 7 Dec 2017
I recommend playing around with the Import Tool. I was able to take your file and import it as a table with the first variable being strings with the text from within the [] brackets and the second being a double of the value in the before the "None". To do this, I added custom column delimiters ([, ], and ') to separate the columns from one another and checked "Treat Multiple Delimiters as One" in the delimiter options. I imported the first column as "Text" and the second as a number and named the variables Headers and Time respectively.
Here is what the tool looked like when I was done and what the output was.

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