How to create a cell array using web data?

Greetings,

I am trying to create a {... x 4} cell array with the following data.

 http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/realtime2/41053.txt

I want to take the first five columns (#YY MM DD hh mm) and make it the first cell array. Then take all the rows starting from the third row, keeping in mind the program updates daily and the number of rows varies.

If you help me with this I can deal with the other 3 columns of the cell array

So far the code goes like this,

 clc,clear all

 fid = urlwrite('http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/realtime2/41053.txt','SJ.txt')

Could you please help?

[Image Analyst]

How many columns from each row are you going to take, and how many cells do you want them in? What is in each cell? Why don't you just read the first two lines into a 2 by 19 cell array, then for the rest of the lines, just read each line into a row of a (N rows) by 8 (or 91) regular old numerical matrix?