how to read complex file data to matrix

I have a.txt file, with complex data. the format is

1.958138021e-02	0.64646110658609712285 + 0.093290941560866688653j	
1.958139648e-02	0.32117256288141476928 - 0.061542254916540022058j	
1.958141276e-02	-0.22359569118086644601 + 0.3585713533321416846j	
1.958142904e-02	-0.22397218216792619261 + 0.082213621398327246803j	
1.999960938e-02	0	
1.999962565e-02	0	
1.999964193e-02	0	
1.999965820e-02	0
2.000000000e-02	0.10412797744247889731 + 0.0081123700776114041067j		

There's space between + and -. how can I read this file into a matrix with seperated I part and Q part.

like

1.958138021e-02  0.64646110658609712285   0.093290941560866688653
...
1.999960938e-02	0                       0
2.000000000e-02	0.10412797744247889731  0.0081123700776114041067

[stozaki]

Could you attach a real text file?

[vincent lin]

yes. a.txt added

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Following Walter's advise

%%
chr = fileread('a.txt');
%%
chr = strrep( chr, ' + ', '+' );
chr = strrep( chr, ' - ', '-' );
cac = textscan( chr, '%f%f' );
%%
M = cat( 2, cac{1}, real(cac{2}), imag(cac{2}) );

>> M(1:3,:)
ans =
            0      0.10413    0.0081124
   1.6276e-08     -0.04608    -0.073765
   3.2552e-08    -0.038321     0.076231

[vincent lin]

thank you. This works and is fast. I find there's another code by reading line by line. It works but is very slow. Your method is faster

fid = fopen ('a.txt','r'); 
ii  = 1;
while ~feof(fid)
    acorrente(ii, :) = str2num(fgets(fid));
    ii = ii + 1;
end
fclose(fid);
data = [real(acorrente(:,1)) real(acorrente(:,2)) imag(acorrente(:,2))];

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Sometimes easiest is to read the file as a character vector, use regexp to remove the space around the sign of the imaginary part, and then textscan. textscan and other numeric formats can read complex values when there is no space.

Or read the file as string and regexp to change lines that do not end in j to append + 0j on them. With all lines having the same format you can easily textscan to extract real and imaginary separately.