Import data as struct with fields instead of struct array (Var1, Var2...)?

I'm trying to import a .txt-table as a "struct with fields". For that, I use readtable() and table2struct. But MATLAB creates a struct array with the two columns Var1 and Var2. I don't want it like that but rather like in the last screenshot, which I took from a previous work of someone else. Here, the column "Field" contains the labels of the variables and column "Value" contains the corresponding values.

The difference is that the struct I create is a struct array, whereas the one from my template is just a "struct with fields".

Side note: Another problem is that the Value "[e-mail]" is a NaN when I import it. Any idea how to correctly import the string?

Matlab2020b.

Answer 1

[Ive J]

Method 1:

input =       readcell('input.txt').'; % read as cell, NaN won't be an issue here
inputStruct = cell2struct(input(2:end, :), input(1,:), 2); % use first row as field names

Method 2 (if you still insist in using readtable):

input = readtable('input.txt', 'ReadRowNames', true); % if still getting NaN, try setting 'TextType' to 'string'
input = rows2vars(input); % rotate the table
input.(1) = []; % discard OriginalVariableNames
inputStruct = table2struct(input, 'ToScalar', true); % a scalar struct

[Ulvi Sanal]

Thank you very much, method 1 worked like a charm!