Textscan File and ignoring the newline characters

How can I textscan a file and ignore newline characters?

[dpb]

What do you mean by "ignore"?

textscan will apply the fmt string repetitively on the records in the file returning the data by itself with no newlines embedded.

Need short example to clarify the problem you're trying to solve.

[Giorgos Papakonstantinou]

Thank you! My example is the following:

 "My","name","is","Giorgos","I","was","born","in","May
 1985","I like matlab."
 "My","name","is","Giorgos","I","was","born","in","May
 1985","I like matlab."
 "My","name","is","","I","was","born","in","May
 1985","I like matlab."
 "My","name","is","Giorgos","I","was","born","in","May
 1985","",

I want to retrieve words contained within the quotation marks in batches of tens. So create a cell Nx10.

The problem is that the 9th phrase is going in the next line because there are the characters \r\n, so the textscan creates two cells instead of one.

 '"May' '1985"'

instead of:

 '"May 1985"'

Is it more clear?

[Walter Roberson]

What textscan command are you using?

[Giorgos Papakonstantinou]

 tmp = textscan(fid, '%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s' , 'delimiter', ',', 'headerlines', 1);

Answer 1

[AJ von Alt]

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);

[Giorgos Papakonstantinou]

You have saved my day! Thank you!!