Why fscanf return strange character I do not see in notepad?

Hi all,

I have several txt files that look fine in Notepad, but they are full of strange characters from fscanf and I'm wondering why it occurs.

Here my code:

TxtFid=fopen([TxtPath TxtFile]);
    Txt=fscanf(TxtFid,'%c');

Here how the a part of the file looks like in notepad:

      ≤ 25,33                                              de /  from   0 à / to 28,6

Here how the same part looks from fscanf:

         ≤ 25,33                                              de /  from   0 à / to 28,6

Why does it occur? For the coding? May trying several codings solve the problem?

I tried yo change the coding as the following:

    TxtFid=fopen([TxtPath TxtFile],[],[],'windows-847');

but Matlab returns:

Error using fopen
Invalid permission.

How may I solve the problem?

Thanks

Cheers

[Jan]

The permissions cannot be [], but at least 'r'.

[pietro]

From Matlab documentation:

fileID = fopen(filename,permission,machinefmt,encodingIn)

For this reason, I used the function as the following:

      TxtFid=fopen([TxtPath TxtFile],[],[],'windows-847');

[Walter Roberson]

You need to provide valid entries there. Empty entries are not accepted.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Use fread() instead.

[pietro]

It worked. I just used fread in the following way:

   Txt=fread(TxtFid);
   Txt=char(Txt)';

Why is there so much difference among the two uses?