Re: How to read txt file and output to display

[Andrew Janke]

On 3/14/19 4:30 PM, sb wrote:
> I have a txt file which includes a help text for a program that I am trying
> to write.
> I want to display its contents to the display (i.e. read from txt file and
> flush its content to the display) when selected from a menu.
> I couldn't find the exact command to do this (if any)?
> Most of the commands refer to reading data with delimiters. I want to read
> from a simple txt file which includes text (any length and any number of
> lines).
> Is this possible?

Sure. Use fopen() with fgetl() or fgets() to read the text from the 
file, collect those in a cellstr, and then print them using fprintf(). 
The "line-oriented input" functions are the family you need to read 
plain text. See https://octave.org/doc/v4.4.1/Line_002dOriented-Input.html.

Cheers,
Andrew