Arbitrary Read

Read line by line from an arbitrarily formatted file
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Updated 29 Jul 2014

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In many application we need to write a file parser because some not so farsighted programmer generated a delimited file that does not follow a standard. This function helps read such a file line by line (based on endline character) and separate items in the read line based on a user defined delimiter. The function returns the items in a cell array and an optional output designating if the file being read ended.
NOTE: Users are thanked in advance for their comments and feedback to help improve this code.

Cite As

Debejyo Chakraborty (2024). Arbitrary Read (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/44766-arbitrary-read), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2012a
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
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Version Published Release Notes
1.4.0.0

minor bug fix

1.3.0.0

minor bug fix

1.2.0.0

minor bug fix

1.1.0.0

Bug fix.

1.0.0.0