To read from a file it must be opened for reading using fopen.
Then a line can be read from the file using fgetl as the following
code illustrates
fid = fopen ("free.txt");
txt = fgetl (fid)
-| Free Software is needed for Free Science
fclose (fid);
This of course assumes that the file ‘free.txt’ exists and contains the line ‘Free Software is needed for Free Science’.
Read characters from a file, stopping after a newline, or EOF, or len characters have been read. The characters read, excluding the possible trailing newline, are returned as a string.
If len is omitted,
fgetlreads until the next newline character.If there are no more characters to read,
fgetlreturns −1.To read a line and return the terminating newline see
fgets.
Read characters from a file, stopping after a newline, or EOF, or len characters have been read. The characters read, including the possible trailing newline, are returned as a string.
If len is omitted,
fgetsreads until the next newline character.If there are no more characters to read,
fgetsreturns −1.To read a line and discard the terminating newline see
fgetl.
Read and skip count lines from the file descriptor fid.
fskipldiscards characters until an end-of-line is encountered exactly count-times, or until the end-of-file marker is found.If count is omitted, it defaults to 1. count may also be
Inf, in which case lines are skipped until the end of the file. This form is suitable for counting the number of lines in a file.Returns the number of lines skipped (end-of-line sequences encountered).