read .txt to cell array with keeping the row and column structure

I want to read in .txt that looks like this:

23.06.2011 09:53:48.2153  CAN #2      | Rx   0e4  8 26 73 74 22
23.06.2011 09:53:48.2182  CAN #2      | Rx   281  2 7b f3
23.06.2011 09:53:48.2204  CAN #2      | Rx   1b3  00 ff 80 26
23.06.2011 09:53:48.2225  CAN #2      | Rx   199  1d 80 ff 2f

but then with quite a few more lines in the same format, and save it as a cell array that keeps the row and column structure. Just doing textscan will make a X by 1 array where the rows and columns are lost. Any know what to do? thanx!

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

fid=fopen('test.txt','rt');
a=textscan(fid,repmat('%s ',1,12))
fclose(fid);

[Joris]

i did it without the repmat part (used a loop to make rows), but this is probably faster and would have save me much work