how to read textfile that contains mupad expression into mupad session?

I have a text file, say "foo.txt" that contains one mupad statement such as

x:=[1,2,3];

And from the mupad notebook interface (not Matlab's workspace), I want to simply evaluate this so that `x` will be defined in memory so I use this list later.

I have reason why I need the statement to be in file.

Currently, I have to open the text file using external editor, copy it and paste it into a cell in the notebook to be able to use it.

Is there a way to evaluate/read this file and have mupad evaluate it? This is easy to do in Maple like this:

     read foo.txt

and now `x` is read and evaluated as if one had typed the content of the file in the notebook. I looked at all the mupad input/output calls, such as readdata

http://www.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/mupad_ref/import-readdata.html

but the above does not do what I want. I am using Matlab 2015a.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/mupad_ref/read.html

You will probably want to use the Plain option, which is shown further at http://www.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/mupad_ref/fread.html

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

thanks. The Plain option did the trick