How to Import vertexes and facet from a STL "ASCII" file ?

I'm searching for a script witch I can import the vertexes coordinate and the facet form an STL ASCII file. The only one I find for ASCCI and not for binary import only the vertexes and thus It's difficult to draw the surface after it.

Can somebody help ?

[Geoff Hayes]

Have you seen Eric Trautmann's fast STL import from the MATLAB File Exchange? It seems to output more than just the vertex coordinates.

[Pierrick Bersier]

Yes I seen it. But I did not get it to run properly. I had an error every time I tried.

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[Pierrick Bersier]

Meanwhile I fine here a script that works directly for me:

http://ifit.mccode.org/Downloads/ifit-1.5/Libraries/Loaders/private/read_stl.m

It gives out the vertexes, the faces and the normals.