Row-oriented text file

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IE
IE on 10 Jul 2019
Answered: IE on 10 Jul 2019
What's a good way to import a row oriented text file? All of the import methods I know of produce a character array that would require manually searching through to find variable names. The file I'm trying to import looks a bit like the following:
First Name: Name
Last Name: Name
Age: Age
...
and so on. I'm trying to extract the first name, last name, age, and a couple of other variables from it.
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Guillaume
Guillaume on 10 Jul 2019
Can you attach an example text file?
IE
IE on 10 Jul 2019
The original file is .dat but otherwise this is the same.

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IE
IE on 10 Jul 2019
Figured out the answer to my own question. Can be solved by importing as
readtable(fileName,'ReadRowNames',1)

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