To read a word and indices

If I read a word directly such as:

word = 'CABDABCCDAA';
[uniqueLetters,~,ind] = unique(word);
disp(ind')

The ind would be such as:

3 1 2 4 1 2 3 3 4 1 1

But I need to read from a file, which could be a long file, but as an example I get the first 3 line of it:

12 CABDABCCDAA

10 jonathan

87658 david

so I did this:

inlist = fopen('test.txt');
linx = fgetl(inlist);
while ischar(linx)
    x = strsplit(linx);
    word=x(1,2);%This would get the word for me, which we put statically in the first example above
    disp(toWord);
    [uniqueLetters,~,ind] = unique(word);
    disp(uniqueLetters);%the output is the same as the output of toWord
    disp(ind);
end
fclose(inlist);

Here however I dont get

3 1 2 4 1 2 3 3 4 1 1

but only this output:

1

How can I get the same output, I think my mistake is to get a cell from the matrix where I do toWord=x(1,2); but I am not sure how to fix this.

Answer 1

[DGM]

Something like this should be a start.

fid = fopen('test.txt');

while true
    linx = fgetl(fid);
    if ~ischar(linx); break; end
    
    x = strsplit(linx);
    word=x{1,2}; % This would get the word for me, which we put statically in the first example above
    [uniqueLetters,~,ind] = unique(word);
    
    disp(word); % toWord is undefined
    disp(uniqueLetters); % the output is the same as the output of toWord
    disp(ind.');
end

CABDABCCDAA

ABCD

     3     1     2     4     1     2     3     3     4     1     1

jonathan

ahjnot

     3     5     4     1     6     2     1     4

david

adiv

     2     1     4     3     2

fclose(fid);

[Stephen23]

while ~feof(fid)