Reading a string datafile line by line

Hi all, I've been trying to read strings from a txt file (a replay script from ICEM actually) line by line but I've been unable to so far.

I want to obtain a string array that each element includes one of the lines of the datafile.

the text file looks like this:

_'ic_boco_solver

ic_boco_clear_icons

ic_csystem_display all 0

ic_csystem_set_current global

ic_boco_nastran_csystem reset

ic_undo_group_end

ic_set_global geo_cad 0 toptol_userset

ic_set_global geo_cad 0.0005 toler

ic_undo_group_begin

ic_geo_new_family GEOM

ic_boco_set_part_color GEOM

ic_point {} GEOM pnt.00 -10,10,0'_

I have only managed to either get each all the text in the same element:

_ic_boco_solveric_boco_clear_iconsic_csystem_display_

or each character separately like this:

_I

c

_

b

o

c

o

_

s

o_

or to get chunks that are separated by empty spaces like this:

_'ic_boco_solver'

'ic_boco_clear_icons'

'ic_csystem_display'

'all'

'0'

'ic_csystem_set_current'

'global'

'ic_boco_nastran_csystem'_

, but I could not get the whole line and only the line.

that was using respectively:

temp1=textscan(fid,'%c')
or

temp2=dataread('file','text.txt','%c')
or

temp2=dataread('file','text.txt','%s')

Every line starts with 'ic_'. Maybe that could help?

Thank you!

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Try

cac = textscan( fid, '%s', 'Delimiter', '\n' )

[Ignacio]

YES!

yet I actually try that before, and tried it again when you just wrote it without success.

I think I was messing things with fopen and fclose, cause as soon as I cleared the workbench and rerunned it, it worked.

Thank you!