reading a text file data

hello all!, I have a text file and I used 'dlmread' command to read the data, and had the following results:

well = [0 1 2 3 4 0 0;0 5 6 0 0 8 11;0 11 12 0 0 55 49;0 2 88 44 26 0 0;0 8 96 7 4 0 0;0 22 6 41 20 0 0;0 63 5 0 0 11 4; 0 52 8 0 0 63 32];

the above is just a sample format, actually i have a data containing 6511 rows and in between I am seeing this behaviour. I removed the first column of zeros; for which i used this:

well(:,~any(well,1)) = [];

Now, i want to shift those miss-arranged data in appropriate columns and produce result in following manner for the rows (out of 6511) wherever applicable:

result = [1 2 3 4 ;5 6 8 11;11 12 55 49;2 88 44 26;8 96 7 4;22 6 41 20;63 5 11 4;52 8 63 32];

Thank you!

[Walter Roberson]

I wonder if reading with readtable() might not have done a better job for you ?

[KRISHNA NISHCAL BHARATULA]

Thank you Walter! You gave me a wonderful hint and for my next problem as well.