Search an entire text file for a word

If i have a text file and am looking for the number of times a specific word appears in it, how would I go about doing that? I tried using the "contains" and "strfind" but they aren't working because its a text file not a string.

Answer 1

[Cedric]

 content = fileread( 'MyTextFile.txt' ) ;

and then you can STRFIND or REGEXP or anything else on content, which is a char array.