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Introduction to Python for MATLAB Users

Read and Write Text Files

Explore how to read and write text files using Python's built-in functions and compare these methods with MATLAB's file handling functions. Understand different file access modes and practice writing data with proper formatting in Python.

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Reading data from a text file

To read a text file in MATLAB, we can use the fscanf() function. We need to set the file with the format specifier %c, which reads characters individually.

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% Open a file for reading
f_obj = fopen('data.txt', 'r');
% Read data from file with actual new lines
data = fscanf(f_obj, '%c');
% Display file data
disp(data);
% Close file
fclose(f_obj);
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