MATLAB: Importdata silently misreads text file data

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I am importing a text logfile using importdata but finding what appears to be incorrect data within the imported cell array:
a = importdata('cam1_000131.txt');
a{6741}
a{6742}
ans =
    '6741	2018-05-21 11:03:53.948318'
ans =
    '6742	2018-05-21 11:03:53.948318'
The imported cells show duplicate times imported from the log file. Meanwhile the text file at those lines does not contain duplicate data (oddly the line numbers in the text file are correctly imported and not duplicated) :
lines from 'cam1_000131.txt' (text file is attached to post):
6740 2018-05-21 11:03:53.885769
6741 2018-05-21 11:03:53.916993
6742 2018-05-21 11:03:53.948318
6743 2018-05-21 11:03:53.995122
Any thoughts? What is a more reliable way to easily read in text file log data by separate lines for parsing? Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

Rahul - in the file you have attached, I do see the duplicated data at these lines
6740	2018-05-21 11:03:53.885769
6741	2018-05-21 11:03:53.948318
6742	2018-05-21 11:03:53.948318
6743	2018-05-21 11:03:53.995122
Perhaps you are not reading from the file that you think that you are reading from?
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