readtextfile
by Tim C. Lueth, SG-Lib Toolbox: SolidGeometry 5.6 - Auxiliary function
Introduced first in SolidGeometry 5.0, Creation date: 2021-02-05, Last change: 2025-09-15
simply reads an ascii text file
Description
With the introduction of UTF-16 it is getting much more complicated to handle textfile and to maintain old code. UTF-16 files start with ascii 255 and are converted by txt=txt(3:2:end)
See Also: SGgcoderead
, PosereadAPD
, SGreadstructfile
, writetextfile
Example Illustration
Syntax
[TEXT,s,fname]=readtextfile([fname,tsize,lines,"UTF"])
Input Parameter
fname: | | file name |
tsize: | | numer of characters to read from the file start |
lines: | | if tsize='' the following lines are extracted |
"UTF": | | if 'UTF-8' is used, an "UTF-16" (Matlab 2024b) is returned as UTF-8 |
Output Parameter
TEXT: | | ASCII content uin8 / char |
s: | | separator by newlin |
fname: | | filename |
Examples
readtextfile('/Volumes/LUETH-WIN/WIN AIM Matlab Libraries/SolidGeometry-Code/PLcircle.m')
readtextfile('/Volumes/LUETH-WIN/WIN AIM Matlab Libraries/SolidGeometry-Code/PLcircle.m',100) % 100 Bytes
readtextfile('/Volumes/LUETH-WIN/WIN AIM Matlab Libraries/SolidGeometry-Code/PLcircle.m','',2:4) % Lines 2:5
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