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In article <C1Fqxv.HKo@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> Jim Stockel,
stockel@taupo.oc.nps.navy.mil writes:
>I'm fairly new to Matlab and have v4.0.  A typical data file for me
contains
>some strings for documentation/plot labeling, and some data.  I've tried
>the [A,count] = fscanf(fid,'format',size)  routine for reading strings, 
>but it leaves something to be desired.  With no size argument, 
>it tries to read to the end of file.  If a size argument is used
>then that is the number of whitespace seperated groups of characters are 
>read (ie. words).  Isn't there a way to read a newline terminated string?
>Am I missing something?  Is there a better way to read strings?

Try "fgets" or "fgetl".  If you need to extract pieces from the line
you can do that with "sscanf".  This is what I've been doing and it
works ... but, as always, there may be a better way.

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