Reading Text and Parsing by Character

Hi, I need to somehow read in a text file with no standard delimiters (spaces,tabs,ect.) and parse it by character into a long single row array.

For example,

rand.txt = "thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog"

finalarray = ['t' 'h' 'e' 'q' 'u' 'i' 'c' 'k'....]

Any advice??

Thanks in advance!

[Oleg Komarov]

The example you provided is misleading (or I don't understand it) since the second line of code will return exactly the first line.

[Nikolay Rodionov]

Sorry I was in a rush, what I meant was that I will have a text file that contains a line like "thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog"

I want to create a string array that looks like ['t' 'h' 'e' 'q' 'u' 'i' 'c' 'k'....] where the input string is parsed by each character.

[Walter Roberson]

[] is the horizontal concatenation operator. ['a' 'b'] has exactly the same result as 'ab' . Are you looking for a cell array of strings? {'a' 'b'} ?

[Nikolay Rodionov]

Yes

Answer 1

[Albert Yam]

rand.txt = 'thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog';
finalarray = regexp(rand.txt,'[a-z]','match')

Edit: if every character, including periods and such

finalarray = regexp(rand.txt,'.','match')

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

finalarray = num2cell(rand.txt);

[Nikolay Rodionov]

this works great too