read an empty line in a file

hello everybody, I'm french so escuse me for my english... I've a problem, I have to read a file with matlab and it contains empty line for exemple :

<Node name="root" gravity='0 0 0' dt="0.01"

<EulerImplicitSolver name="cg_odesolver" printLog="0" etc etc

matlab read the first line and stop the reading . I did :

   fid = fopen(name,'rt');
   tline = fgetl(fid);    
   while (tline~=-1)
      tline = fgetl(fid);
      ....
      ....
   end

fgetl(fid) returns :

tline =

     ''

I don't know what I have to do... thnak you very much

Answer 1

[Friedrich]

Hi,

try it with feof in the while loop. See here for an example:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2011a/techdoc/ref/feof.html

Answer 2

[Fangjun Jiang]

use while ~feof(fid) instead

Answer 3

[trajik]

thank u very much to both of you!!