how can I count/read an Enter as one character?

so here's the problem, i have a text file named sampletext.txt containing:

Hello Word

1 2 3 4 5 6

,I used the code

fid = fopen('sampletext.txt');

A = char(fread(fid,inf)).';

L = length(A)

the expected output is 22 but is outputs 23, it counts enter as 2 character. please help. :)

thankyou!

Answer 1

[Jan]

The character you call "enter" can be char([13, 10]) for DOS formatted ASCII text. Then counting this as 2 characters is correct. Why do you think this is wrong?

But could open the file under Windows in text-mode:

fid = fopen('sampletext.txt', 'rt');

Then the line reak is converted to a char(10) implicitely. But this has the disadvantage, that is does not apply the same conversion under Linux. Writig platform dependent code is a bad programming practize, so I'd rely on counting two bytes as two characters.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Why not simply use fgetl() if you want to read line by line?

[Jan]

@Image Analyst: Jaybee did not say, that the file should be read line by line.

[Image Analyst]

No but I just offered as a possibility in case he wants to and to not have to worry about 10s and 13s.