load txt file in matrix into matlab

how to load this into matlab from a txt file:

[1 2 1 E A Iy Iz Ix J

2 3 2 E A Iy Iz Ix J

3 4 3 E A Iy Iz Ix J]

the problem is that the letters E A Iy Iz Ix J ----> gives NaN when I load it into matlab

[madhan ravi]

Attach the text file.

[KSSV]

Read about textscan.

[polo Mahmoud]

the file is there now

[Rik]

Do you only want to store the numbers? Or should the letters be replaced by something?

[madhan ravi]

Rik probably he would need the letters for his symbolic computations. So the solution is to use textscan(...) as KSSV suggested.

[polo Mahmoud]

i need the numbers and letters as the letters later in matlab has to replaced by numbers

Answer 1

[Anish Walia]

Since the data type of all values is not same, try importing it as cell array

data = readcell('testload.txt') 

[polo Mahmoud]

Thank

Answer 2

[Ameer Hamza]

As Madhan mentioned that you might want to load it as symbolic, you may try

str = fileread('test.txt');
words = regexp(str, '\w+', 'match');
idx = cellfun(@(x) isnan(str2double(x)), words);
syms(words(idx));
M = eval(str);