How to Import unformatted text data?

Below I have attached a text file , how to read and separate the values
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What are "the values" and which kind of output do you wnat? What have you tried so far and which explicite problems occurred?
Jan
Jan on 4 Oct 2012
Edited: Jan on 4 Oct 2012
[FIRING PLATFORM SCENARIO]
SURFACE FRIGATE 1
[TORPEDO SCENARIO DETAILS]
Are you sure that these data are not concerned by the export restrictions of mass destruction weapons? I got troubles already when I've posted an 128-bit AES encryption in the FEX...
Would our assistence support killing of human in any nation for any reasons?
CAE is a well-known defense contractor. So, yeah, probably.
No ,,This is just reference text file,,i have to program it mr Jan Simon,,

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Hi Maddila,
This looks like a rather non-uniform format, so your best bet might be to read in the full file, and then separate it out using regexp. It looks like splitting by square brackets might do the trick. Something like this:
str = fileread('your/file/name'); %read in file in full
parts = regexp(str, '\[|\]', 'split'); %split by brackets
%then you can extract information from the individual split out sections.

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