MATLAB: Extracting values from text files as matrix format

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I have a text file whose format as follows;
******** Week 887 almanac for PRN-01 ********
ID:                         01
Health:                     000
Eccentricity:               0.5846023560E-002
******** Week 887 almanac for PRN-02 ********
ID:                         02
Health:                     000
Eccentricity:               0.1588439941E-001
There are several ***** week ****** exist in the text file. I need to store each values (ID,Health, Eccentricity) as a matrix format. How can I store these values as a matrix or array format?

Best Answer

fid=fopen('file.txt')
s=fgetl(fid)
out={}
while ischar(s)
   out{end+1}=regexp(s,'(?<=(ID:|Health:| Eccentricity:))\s+\S+','match','once');
   s=fgetl(fid);
end
fclose(fid)
idx=~cellfun(@isempty,out)
out=strtrim(reshape(out(idx),3,[]))'
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