how to read a text file including the end of line

Hello,

I have a text file which is generated by a software. The software saves data from hexadecimal to ascii format. So in the text file, there are a lot of end of line ('\n') characters.

When I use fread or fgets, they will ignore these characters, which will cause data lost. How can I read the file without losing anything?

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

The fgetl function will remove the newline '\n' characters. Is that what you want to do?

[Walter Roberson]

And fgets() and fread() will keep the characters. But when you display them, the display will act on them and it might not always be obvious what has happened. Remember that newline characters, char(10) are not saved in the file as literal '\n' character pairs.

If you want to display something with the newline converted into literal '\n' pairs, then

regepxrep(TheString, char(10), '\\n')

[chao zhang]

no, I dont want to remove the newline, but I want to read it as a normal character.

The data process is simply like this: data = fread(fid, N); data_bin = dec2bin(data);

I also need to read the newline, so no data will be lost.

[Guillaume]

As walter said, the newline is still there:

data - fread(fid, N);
find(data == 10)

will show you the indices of all the newlines.