How to read complex format data from txt file

I have a txt file that I want to read into Matlab. Data format is like below:

term2 2015-07-31-15_58_25_612 [0.9934343, 0.3423043, 0.2343433, 0.2342323]

term0 2015-07-31-15_58_25_620 [12]

term3 2015-07-31-15_58_25_625 [2.3333, 3.4444, 4.5555]

...

How can I read these data in the following way?

name = [term2 term0 term3] or namenum = [2 0 3]

time = ["2015-07-31-15_58_25_612" "2015-07-31-15_58_25_620" "2015-07-31-15_58_25_625"]

data = {[0.9934343, 0.3423043, 0.2343433, 0.2342323], [12], [2.3333, 3.4444, 4.5555]}

I tried to use textscan(), but for the data part I cannot specify the length because they are different. Then how can I read it? My Matlab version is R2012b.

Thanks a lot in advance if anyone could help!

[Jan]

Please note, that "time = [2015-07-31-15_58_25_612 ..." cannot be a valid Matlab syntax. What type is wanted? A cell string?

[Hongwei Xu]

@Jan Simon Thank you very much for your reminding! Yes, each time as a string is OK. Time format is not that critical for me. The more important part is the name and data.

Answer 1

[Jan]

fid = fopen(FileName, 'r');
if fid == -1, error('Cannot open %s for reading.', FileName); end

maxLines = 1000;  % Determine this smartly, better to big, use the file size?
name = cell(1, maxLines);
time = cell(1, maxLines);
data = cell(1, maxLines);
k = 0;
ready = false;
while ~ready
  s = fgetl(fid);
  if ischar(s)
    Space   = strfind(s, ' ');
    name{k} = s(1:Space(1)-1);
    time{k} = s(Space(1)+1:Space(2)-1);
    iniBrak = strfind(s, '[') + 1;
    finBrak = strfind(s, ']') - 1;
    data{k} = sscanf(s(iniBrak:finBrak), '%f,').';
  else
    ready = false;
  end
end

fclose(fid);

[Hongwei Xu]

Thanks a lot for your answer! But when I run it, it tends to stuck in while loop...I don't know why... But now I got another answer which works well. For someone who will meet this problem later on:

   %%// read file 
   fid = fopen('text.txt','r') ;
   M = textscan( fid , 'term%d %f-%f-%f-%f_%f_%f_%f %*c %[^]] %*[^\n]'  ) ;
   fclose(fid) ;

   %%// dispatch data
   name = M{1,1} ;
   time_vec = cell2mat( M(1,2:7) ) ;
   time_ms  = M{1,8} ./ (24*3600*1000) ;   %// take care of the   millisecond separatly as they are not handled by "datenum"
   time = datenum( time_vec ) + time_ms ;
   data = cellfun( @(s) textscan(s,'%f',Inf,'Delimiter',',') , M{1,end} ) ;
   timeformat = datestr(time,'yyyy-mm-dd-HH:MM:SS.FFF');