Split numbers in a cell into a few columns in V2011

I have data that is not well formated:

"$# secid elform shrf qr/irid cst scoor nsm

2 5 0.866000 2 1

$# ts1 ts2 tt1 tt2

$ 2.439000 2.439000 1.939000 1.939000"

I read each line of the data into a cell in a matrix.

Now, I want to split the numbers in the cell to a different matrix.

For example, from " 2 5 0.866000 2 1"

To: [2, 5 , 0.866000, 2, 1]

It seems like "split" is the function for it, but it is only available after V2016, but I have V2011. Any idea how I can do this in the old version?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Voss]

You can try str2num:

str = '         2         5  0.866000         2         1';
val = str2num(str)

val = 1×5

2.0000 5.0000 0.8660 2.0000 1.0000