How can I read a txt file and split its content into a strings array and a data array?
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The txt file has information similar to the one below. A would like to have an array of strings (headerline) and an (N X 4) array of data.

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Walter Roberson
on 25 Jul 2018
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 25 Jul 2018
fid = fopen(filename, 'rt');
headers = string( strsplit( fgetl(fid), ';') );
data = cell2mat( textscan(fid, '%f%f%f%f', 'Delimiter', ';', 'collectoutput', 1) );
fclose(fid);
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Ernesto Momox Beristain
on 26 Jul 2018
Ashan Walpitage
on 22 Sep 2021
Try with readtable function
mydata = readtable( file_path )
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