MATLAB: Can one read one line of string title followed by multiple lines of numeric data like FORTRAN

fortranMATLABread/write functions

My test.txt file consist of one line of 80 characters followed by multiple FORTRAN lines that use both integer & floating-point numbers of format I7 or F7.0. Am I restricted to ' ' or ',' delimiters (which would require much rework), or is there a way to read a FORTRAN file?
C2345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
     10 3.0   4.0    5.0    7.0     9.0    10.0   15.0  20.0  25.0    xxxxxxxxxx
I plan to write MATLAB R2016a Student programming code using a FORTRAN txt/doc file.

Best Answer

As long as you don't have fixed-width fields with missing data, no problems with space-delimited files--
>> type ken.dat
C2345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
   10 3.0   4.0    5.0    7.0     9.0    10.0   15.0  20.0  25.0    xxxxxxxxxx
>> fmt=[repmat('%f',1,10) '%*s'];
>> fid=fopen('ken.dat','r');
>> data=cell2mat(textscan(fid,fmt,'headerlines',1,'collectoutput',1))
data =
  10     3     4     5     7     9    10    15    20    25
>> fid=fclose(fid);
>> whos data
Name      Size            Bytes  Class     Attributes
data      1x10               80  double              
>>
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