how can i compress a text file using textscan?

how can i compress a text file using textscan? i have to compress a textfile,i think using textscan would be better...i can't seem to understand the format.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

textscan() is not useful for compressing files; it is only useful for reading in data. Though it could potentially be useful in reading data from a file in order to further process the data for the purpose of compression.

Normally if you were going to compress a file you would read the file with fread() (or perhaps fileread)

[Shamima Yesmin]

can you suggest me any other function to compress a text file?

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7725-huffman-coding-and-decoding-for-text-compression

Answer 2

[Jan]

Did you ask your favourite search engine for "Matlab compress files" already? You'd find zip() immediately.