MATLAB: Fscanf return strange character I do not see in notepad

Question

Hi all,

I have several txt files that look fine in Notepad, but they are full of strange characters from fscanf and I'm wondering why it occurs.

Here my code:

TxtFid=fopen([TxtPath TxtFile]);
    Txt=fscanf(TxtFid,'%c');

Here how the a part of the file looks like in notepad:

      ≤ 25,33                                              de /  from   0 à / to 28,6

Here how the same part looks from fscanf:

         ≤ 25,33                                              de /  from   0 à / to 28,6

Why does it occur? For the coding? May trying several codings solve the problem?

I tried yo change the coding as the following:

    TxtFid=fopen([TxtPath TxtFile],[],[],'windows-847');

but Matlab returns:

Error using fopen
Invalid permission.

How may I solve the problem?

Thanks

Cheers

Answer 1

Use fread() instead.