Why doesn't importdata recognize space or tab as delimiters?

I am working on MATLAB 2015a and trying to process a data matrix which looks like this.

Each number is separated by a tab. However, when I tried to import my data using

data = importdata('myfile.txt');

the result is not a multi-row numerical matrix, but a single-row char matrix. I tried to switch the delimiter to space, but it doesn't work. I even specified the delimiter using

[data, delim] = importdata('myfile.txt', '\t');

or

[data, delim] = importdata('myfile.txt', ' ');

but it still doesn't work and the returned delim is NaN. How can I solve this problem? Thank you!

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

fid =fopen('myfile.txt','r')
file = textscan(fid,'%f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f \n','Delimiter','','collectoutput',1);
fclose(fid)
cell2mat(file)

or try

a=load('myfile.txt')

data = importdata('myfile.txt') %couldn't regenerate the issue in 2017a

[madhan ravi]

if it works accept my answer if not let know what's additionally required

[Edward Liang]

Using the load command works. Thanks!

[madhan ravi]

you're welcome

[Damian]

data = importdata('myfile.txt', ' ');