# 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](fclose), [fopen](fopen), [fgets](fgets).

## History

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

## Author

Allan CORNET
