MATLAB: Textscan File and ignoring the newline characters

Question

How can I textscan a file and ignore newline characters?

Answer 1

You should use %q instead of %s when double quotation marks are used to indicate text that you want to keep together. Additionally, the parameter 'HeaderLines' should be set to 0 when there are not header lines to skip.

The following code produced the desired result for the attached input.

% Open the file
fid         = fopen ('testinput2.txt' );
% number of consecutive strings to read
nString     = 10;
% create the datafield template
formatSpec  = repmat( '%q' , 1 , nString );
% parse the file
parsedText  = textscan( fid, formatSpec , 'delimiter',...
                        ',' , 'headerlines', 0, 'CollectOutput', 0 );
% Clean up
fclose(fid);