Reading numbers from alphanumeric strings in a cell matrix

Hi ppl, i am reading a text file consisting of various lines of alpha-numeric strings...
N010 G00 X0 Y0 Z0 N020 G01 X-10 Y10 Z-1 N030 G01 X20 Y40 Z-1 N040 G04 X3 Y3 Z10 M03
Now I need all numerical values of X, i.e. -10,20,3. The problem I am facing is that the strings are read from text file as 'cell' vector and i have to convert them to 'char' to use 'regexp' using '\w*X\w*'....this works, but does not allow the negative number to be read because it starts with a '-'. What to do now??? can anybody help?? I am using MATLAB 2010

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What about the 0? You say you need the numeric values beside the X, but don't list zero...
I'd like to carry the zero as well, but the actual numeric value is what I want to extract. And the thing is when the text file is read, it takes on line as an entity, so it is not ['N010' 'G01' 'X-10' 'Y20' 'Z5'] but ['N010 G01 X-10 Y20 Z5']...so first i break them into char, then parse but still the negative numbers are not read..
See my comment on my answer below.

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X = {'N010' 'G00' 'X0' 'Y0' 'Z0' 'N020' 'G01'...
'X-10' 'Y10' 'Z-1' 'N030' 'G01' 'X20' 'Y40'...
'Z-1' 'N040' 'G04' 'X3' 'Y3' 'Z10' 'M03'};
N = cellfun(@str2double,regexp([X{:}],'(?<=X)-*\d+','match'))

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thankyou for ur attention, i have a querry about ur proposed method...i have explained that in answer of your comment...please see that
If you have:
X = ['N010 G00 X0 Y0 Z0 N020 G01 X-10 Y10',...
'Z-1 N030 G01 X20 Y40 Z-1 N040 G04 X3 Y3 Z10 M03']
Then simply use:
N = cellfun(@str2double,regexp(X,'(?<=X)-*\d+','match'))
Thank you very much sir..I really appreciate it... this works, I am using it for my Y and Z values as well now and it is working. Thanks again!

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A={'N010' 'G00' 'X0' 'Y0' 'Z0' 'N020' 'G01' 'X-10' 'Y10' 'Z-1' 'N030'}
y=cell2mat(cellfun(@(x) str2num(cell2mat(regexp(x,'-?[0-9]','match'))),A,'un',0))

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thankyou for ur response...but there is this thing, the thing is when the text file is read, it takes one line as an entity, so it is not ['N010' 'G01' 'X-10' 'Y20' 'Z5'] but ['N010 G01 X-10 Y20 Z5']...so first i break them into char, then parse but still the negative numbers are not read..
A={' N010 G00 X0 Y0 Z0 N020 G01 X-10 Y10 Z-1 N030 G01 X20 Y40 Z-1 N040 G04 X3 Y3 Z10 M03'}
y=regexp(x,'-?[0-9,.]','match')
out=cell2mat(cellfun(@(x) str2num(cell2mat(x)),y,'un',0))
thanks again, the decimal is a little out of place but the problem is solved. Thanks again

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