fopen failing with @ or . in filename

I am really in trouble. fopen fails to open if filename contains @ symbol or extra . other than the one before file extension. I have so many files to load with these symbols.

I also tried csvread and dlmread, same problem.

Is there any other way to load files in Matlab?

Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

duplicates http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/answers/64743-csvread-and-dots-in-filename

Answer 1

[per isakson]

This works for me on R2012a 64bit

    >> 
    >> fid = fopen( 'cssm.@.txt', 'r' );
    >> cac = textscan( fid, '%[^\n]' )
    cac = 
        {1x1 cell}
    >> cac{:}
    ans = 
        [1x213 char]
    >>