i am trying to open a text file in my gui but its showing just the file name since i am new to matlab kindly help

[filename]=uigetfile({'*.txt'},'File Selector');
set(handles.edit2,'string',filename);

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

[filename, filepath]=uigetfile({'*.txt'},'File Selector');
fullname = fullfile(filepath,filename);

%now read it. 
content = fileread(fullname);  %one of many ways to read files

%and display the content
set(handles.edit2, 'string', content);

[eiraj ahmad]

thank you sir