how to use textscan to read this text file properly

Hi, I have a text file that I cannot read it propely:

'3.700000e+00 2.500000e+00 3.500000e+00 3 6.945462e+00 R  M1  (1)'
'3.700000e+00 2.500000e+00 -3.500000e+00 3 2.764839e+00 L  M1   (1)'
'1 2 2.400000e+00 3 4.719051e+00 R  M1  (2)'
'1 2 -2.400000e+00 3 3.441881e+00 L  M1   (2)'
'-1.700000e+00 1.500000e+00 2.700000e+00 4 4.700973e+00 R  M1  (3)'
it has 5 columns of data and 1 column of string.
could you help me?

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

In your text file, your data are like this

'3.700000e+00 2.500000e+00 3.500000e+00 3 6.945462e+00 R  M1  (1)'

or

3.700000e+00 2.500000e+00 3.500000e+00 3 6.945462e+00 R  M1  (1)

Also, there are three columns for strings

[ELI]

It's like the second option you mentioned.

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

fid = fopen('file.txt');
res=textscan(fid,'%f %f %f %d  %f %s %s %s')
fclose(fid);
celldisp(res)