fileread

Read contents of file as text.

Syntax

• str = fileread(filename)
• str = fileread(filename, type)
• str = fileread(filename, 'char', eol)
• str = fileread(filename, 'char', eol, encoding)

Input argument

• filename - a string: a file name
• type - a string: 'char', 'cell' or 'string'. 'cell' will converts text file to a cell of string. 'string' will converts text file to a string array. 'char' by default.
• eol - a string: 'native', 'pc' or 'unix'. Set end of line. 'unix' by default.
• encoding - a string: 'UTF-8' (default), 'auto', 'ISO-8859-1', 'windows-1251', 'windows-1252', ...

Output argument

• str - a string, cell of strings or string array.

Description

fileread read contents of file as text.

if encoding is 'auto', nelson will try to detect best encoding to read contents of file as text.

Examples

str = fileread([nelsonroot(),'/CHANGELOG.md'])
str = fileread([nelsonroot(),'/CHANGELOG.md'], 'char')
str = fileread([nelsonroot(),'/CHANGELOG.md'], 'cell')
str = fileread([nelsonroot(),'/CHANGELOG.md'], 'string')

str = 'живете зело, земля, и иже и како люди';
filewrite([tempdir(), 'example_fileread.txt'], str, 'native', 'windows-1251')
T1 = fileread([tempdir(), 'example_fileread.txt'], 'char', 'native', 'windows-1251')
T2 = fileread([tempdir(), 'example_fileread.txt'], 'string', 'native', 'auto')

See also

fgetl, filewrite.

History

Author

Allan CORNET