Assign file data to struct

Question

I am trying to create a struct called "points" with members ID, X coordinate, & Y coordinate. What is the simplest way to scan in the data from a file? I'm using textscan, but it's not doing what I want so far.

FILE points.dat
StationA    2.2   4.5
StationB    5.1   6.7
StationC    7.3   3.2


fid = fopen('points.dat');
C = textscan(fid, '%s %f %f');
fclose(fid);

points = struct('id',C{1},'x',C{2},'y',C{3})

Checking points(1) returns the following. All the x & y values are stored in each point.

id: 'StationA'
 x: [3x1 double]
 y: [3x1 double]

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

It should be like this:

points = struct('id',C{1}, 'x', num2cell(C{2}), 'y', num2cell(C{3}));