fileread(sec1,sec2,​point)

Free-format-read function reads data of the known structure from an input

Free-format-read function reads data of the known structure from an input, which may be either ASCII file or a string. Individual items may be numbers, words or strings. Almost any character may serve as a delimiter. The same holds even for a decimal point in real numbers. The function recognizes types of the read data. An attempt to read item
after the physical end of data is signalized by returned character 127.