About importdata(filename) function in Matlab

I have created two .dat files using a same perl script, but on different machines. But when I use importdata(filename) on one file (..mof-177...) it gives a structure as an output, but when I use it on the other file (...mof-5...) it combines all data in a one-dimensional cell. Can someone please explain what might cause this?

I am attching the files along with this message. It is very frustrating to write a different code for each file as I have 1000s of such file to read.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

"I have created two .dat files using a same perl script, but on different machines."

And they have created different files.

"Can someone please explain what might cause this? "

Most likely this non-numeric nonsense here at the end of every line of data:

which clearly does not exist in the other file:

Add nonsense to file, make it harder to parse. So far no surprises here.

[GUNJAN AUTI]

Oh thanks! It's the copying from differnet machine. Unix to windows eol charachter is creating the problem. Thanks, I didn't think of this before!