Loading matrix of string and numbers

[AlbFrigerio]

Hello world, I have a question about loading commands. I tried to look for
the answer in the forum but I didn't find it ; I believe someone already
made this question, but I cannot find the post :(

By the way, the question is quite simple: is it possible to load a matrix A
which consts of both string (first column) and numbers (second one), so that
A(i,1) returns a string and A(i,2) a number? See the attached file for a
simple (stupid) example.

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n3308348/test.txt test.txt 

I tried to use [a,b]=textread("test.txt",'%s %d') , but I got a cell array
(a) and a vector (b) and, even it is a acceptable solution, it is not the
one I'd like: if I got a lot of columsn I should use [a,b,c,d, ... , goofy,
mickey, donald , ... , antares, betelgeus, aldebaran, ...] =
textread("test.txt",'%s %d %s ... ') , and it is not smart :)

Thanks everyone, hace a nice day!!

   Alberto
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