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# 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

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

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

fclose(fid);
```

## 🔗 See also

[fclose](/nelson/markdown/en/stream_manager/fclose.md), [fopen](/nelson/markdown/en/stream_manager/fopen.md), [fgets](/nelson/markdown/en/stream_manager/fgets.md).

## 🕔 History

| Version | 📄 Description  |
| ------- | --------------- |
| 1.0.0   | initial version |