using regexp for strings with space delimited inside text file

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I have a text file whose inside as follows;
ID: 01
Eccentricity: 0.5846023560E-002
Time of Applicability(s): 405504.0000
Orbital Inclination(rad): 0.9652538155
Rate of Right Ascen(r/s): -0.7828897534E-008
SQRT(A) (m 1/2): 5153.587402
Right Ascen at Week(rad): 0.2494223175E+001
Argument of Perigee(rad): 0.529637577
Mean Anom(rad): 0.1359485230E+001
I can extract particular string without space inside text as follows (from Azzi Abdelmalek answer);
fid=fopen('data.txt')
s=fgetl(fid)
out={}
while ischar(s)
out{end+1}=regexp(s,'(?<=(ID:))\s+\S+','match','once')
s=fgetl(fid);
end
fclose(fid)
idx=~cellfun(@isempty,out);
out=strtrim(reshape(out(idx),1,[]))'
But when it comes to other strings with space delimited (Time of Applicability(s): and the others) above codes don't work. How can I modify above codes to work consistently with space delimited strings?

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per isakson
per isakson on 27 Aug 2016
Edited: per isakson on 27 Aug 2016
It seems that : can be used delimiter between "label" and value.
I would read this file with
fid = fopen('data.txt');
cac = textscan( fid, '%s%f', 'Delimiter',':', 'Whitespace','' );
fclose(fid);
Inspect the result
>> cac{1}(3)
ans =
'Time of Applicability(s)'
>> cac{2}(3)
ans =
405504
Your code will work if you replace
'(?<=(ID:))\s+\S+'
by
'(?<=(:))\s+\S+'
"work consistently with space delimited strings" &nbsp space shouldn't be a problem. However, the parentheses, (), requires an escape character, \( and \), respectively.

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