Reading few lines from a text file

I have a text file and I want to read first 10 lines from that file.I tried scantext but not successful.

Can anyone suggest?

[John Petersen]

how about a sample of your text file?

[Shalini]

It is like:

1cccc43 2021 zzvbbb 3cccc43 2051 aggdef 1ddcc43 2775 abcdef 4chhc43 2021 abghef

It has fot several millions of lines and hance I cannot open in xls (lines get truncated beyond a certain limit) so I want to convert it into a text file with fewer lines so that I open in excel

[Jan]

[MOVED from answer section] Shalini wrote:

can anyone pls help?

[Jan]

[MOVED from answer section] Vishal Rane wrote:

Post your comments in the comments sections only. Not many of us bother opening a thread that already has a couple of answers.

Now for your query, refer these functions and examples, Low Level File IO

Comment back in case of any doubts.

[Jan]

@Shalini: Whenever you post the term "I tried...", post the corresponding code and the occurring problems also. Otherwise we cannot give an advice for improvements.

Answer 1

[Jan]

• fopen() to open the file (a test for success is strongly recommended)
• Data = cell(1, 10): Pre-allocate the output
• for loop from 1 to 10
• fgets() to read one line, store it in Data cell.
• end
• fclose() to close the file