Reading a textfile without removing leading zeros

I want to read the attached text-file which contains two columns: text and numeric. I used the code:

fileID=fopen('NWISMapperExport.txt','r');
z=textscan(fileID,'%s %f');
fclose(fileID);

The problem is that it removes leading zeros in the second column, is there is a simple way to retain zeros? I had the same problem with importdata.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

If you want to retain the leading zeros, you have to read them in as strings:

filename = 'NWISMapperExport.txt';
fidi = fopen(filename, 'rt');
D = textscan(fidi, '%s%s', 'CollectOutput',1);

Look = D{:}(1:5,2)                              % Check First Five Rows, Second Column

Look =

    5×1 cell array

      {'00152020'}
      {'00500460'}
      {'00501860'}
      {'02380002'}
      {'02380003'}

[Abhinav]

Thanks!

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!