MATLAB: Handling character array rather than cell

Question

Hello,

I have a text file (file name: X) having identifiers with 64 byte characters. I used textscan function to read the identifiers in MATLAB as follows:

fid = fopen('X','r');
data = textscan(fid,'%64c','delimiter',',');

As a results, I have a cell of records having 64 byte identifiers. My question is how to have a character array instead of a cell?

I can use function char() to change a cell into a character array:

data = char(data);

But I want to generate a character array when I read the text file using textscan because char() function requires another long time to execute.

Thank you for your attention.

Answer 1

data{:}