Escape characters in Matlab

Question

I am reading a file using fileread() which returns me the entire file. Now I need to read line by line and convert them into process the data. Can I know how I would be able to

Answer 1

For special acharacters either use the char function with the character code (http://www.asciitable.com/) or sprintf (my preferred way for better readability. For example you are looking for sprintf('\n') or sprintf('\r\n')

char(13) is carriage return \r char(10) is new line \n