how to do zero padding in middle

I have some text files.. All text file contains two columns. both of 480 rows. But some text files have some rows missing.. In one of them after 63rd row directly there is 86th row.. So, total rows get reduced to 450. Now i want to convert this rows in again 480rows by zero padding from 64th to 85th.. So, how to do..? This text file is attached here.. http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=g4a8afb397a4e11ed999171111e1b74b570928a6b1

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 21 Nov 2012
Edited: Image Analyst on 21 Nov 2012
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Ok..Is there any other way to upload my text file here..! or if you know any other site..

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 21 Nov 2012
Consider using textscan() with the MissingValue option set to 0

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yes, i seen a textscan option, but it works if from given data if some data is missing.. In my text file the first column sequence is missing and i have to set its corresponding data to 0..
Ah, what do the column sequence numbers look like ?
Lalit Patil
Lalit Patil on 21 Nov 2012
Edited: Lalit Patil on 21 Nov 2012
If i do B = 1:480; B = B'; firstcolumn = [1 ;2 ;3;..63; ;86;...480]; missingvalues = setdiff(B,firstcolumn);
then i will get all the missing points.. Now how to add this points at last in first column in text file and then to set its corresponding value to 0...
If the values can go at the end then if M is what you read the data in to,
M(end+1:end+length(missingvalues), 1) = missingvalues;
and then write the file out in an appropriate format.
I got solution.. First i find missing values then stored it in another text file, then merged both files.. so, i got total 480 rows... Thanks for help..!

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