Using fopen, textscan for TXT file but each line cut off at space. How to resolve the issue?

I have a large txt file containing the filepaths for specified files.

Ex:

H:\Vicon_data\modified2AFC\Clarkson 2AFC\M29AA216\M29AA216afc01c1asfh_0000.3LA

My code:

%read the text file
fileID=fopen('Master_inventory.txt');
inventory = textscan(fileID,'%s %*[^\n]');
d = inventory{1};
c = cellstr(d)

Result in command window:

'H:\Vicon_data\modified2AFC\Clarkson'

NOTE: The example path is one of +28000, which are distributed into different folders, so I can't go back and delete the spaces from the folder names.

[Sara]

Is the use of fgetl out of question?

Answer 1

[dpb]

I'm partial to

inventory=textread('Master_inventory.txt', '%s', 'delimiter', '\n', 'whitespace', '');

as it saves the extra f[open|close] step required in textscan

Your problem is the single %s will interpret up to a whitespace character as the string and then you told it to skip the remainder of the line.

The above to switch delimiter to newline and eliminate whitespace parsing works with textscan, too, though, if you prefer to stick with it.