fgetl

Read string from a file without newline.

Syntax

• res = fgetl(f)

Input argument

• f - a file descriptor

Output argument

• res - a string or -1

Description

Read string from a file, stopping after a newline or EOF have been read.

If there is no more character to read, fgets will return -1.

newline character removed of the string returned

characters encoding uses fopen parameter.

Example

fid = fopen([nelsonroot(), '/etc/startup.m']);

tline = fgetl(fid);
while ischar(tline)
    disp(tline)
    tline = fgetl(fid);
end

fclose(fid);

See also

fclose, fopen, fgets.

History

Version	Description
1.0.0	initial version

Author

Allan CORNET