None of the standard data importing routines can handle that file because of the '[' and ']'. You could use textscan for part of it, but it probably is not worthwhile doing so. It would be easier to use fgetl() and sscanf(), or to use fileread() and regexp() .
You have not defined the desired output variables. MATLAB numeric arrays cannot have different numbers of elements per row, so if you want to preserve the structure you will need to use multiple variables or you will need to use cell arrays,
