Question

I am trying to write a short code to read a .m file(testin1.m) into an array, and search for a particular word( ‘auto’). if match is found,delete it. i have the following code, please help me figure out my mistake.

fid = fopen('testin1.m');
 txt = textscan(fid,'%s');
fclose(fid);
m_file_idx = 1;
data=['auto'];
B=cellstr(data);
 for idx = i : length(txt)
 A=txt{i};
 is_auto=isequal(A, B);
 if is_auto==0
 txt{i}=[];
 end
end

if txt{i}=auto then it should delete that row.

Answer 1

AK4749’s answer is absolutely correct in showing where you went wrong. I’ll just add an alternative solution to yours, which is shorter:

C = textread('testin1.m', '%s', 'delimiter', '\n');
C = C(cellfun(@isempty, regexp(C, 'auto')));

That’s it!

EDIT #1: answer modified to remove the lines that contains the word ‘auto’, not just the word itself.
EDIT #2: answer modified to accept regular expressions.