how to use textscan to read this text file properly

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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?
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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 3 Jan 2014
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 3 Jan 2014
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
ELI on 3 Jan 2014
It's like the second option you mentioned.

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 3 Jan 2014
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 3 Jan 2014
fid = fopen('file.txt');
res=textscan(fid,'%f %f %f %d %f %s %s %s')
fclose(fid);
celldisp(res)

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