Comparing words in text file line by line

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I got a text file with only one word in each line. How can I open and compare each word from this file with required word in a loop?

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Adam Danz
Adam Danz on 12 Aug 2019
Edited: Adam Danz on 12 Aug 2019
"I got a text file with only one word in each line. How can I open and compare each word from this file with required word in a loop?"
It's probably best to read the entire file rather than line-by-line. Then you compare each line with your required word. Here's a demo that reads a file named "data.txt" and searches for the requiredWord "sunshine".
% Read in the entire file, keep columnar arrangement
t = strsplit(fileread('data.txt'))';
requiredWord = 'sunshine';
[hit, lineNumber] = ismember(requiredWord, t);
% If you don't want case sensitivity:
% hit = ismember(lower(requiredWord), lower(t));
If you must read line-by-line, use fgetl() in a while-loop that loops through the file line by line. This demo stops either when the word was found or the last line was read.
% Read line by line
fid = fopen('data.txt');
tline = fgetl(fid);
hit = false;
c = 0; %counter
while ischar(tline) && ~hit
c = c+1; % if you want the row number
hit = strcmp(requiredWord, tline); % use strcmpi() for case insensitivity
tline = fgetl(fid);
end
fclose(fid);

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