jpa_loadTxtToArray.m

function file = jpa_loadTxtToArray(pathToFile)
% function that loads a TXT-file and returns the lines in a String-Array
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% Syntax:  file = jpa_loadTxtToArray(pathToFile)
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% Inputs:
%    pathToFile - Full Path to a .txt file to be loaded
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% Outputs:
%    file       - String-Array containing the loaded .txt where a row in
%                   .txt is a cell in Array
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% Example:
%    file = jpa_loadTxtToArray('C:\example\examplefile.txt')
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% Other m-files required: none
% Subfunctions: none
% MAT-files required: none
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% See also:

% Author: Jan Albrecht
% Work address: 
% email: jan-philipp.albrecht@charite.de, j.p.albrecht@fu-berlin.de
% Website:
% Sep 2015; Last revision: 14-Okt-2015

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% load file
try
    inFile = fopen(pathToFile, 'r+');
catch err
    error(['Could not open file in path ' pathToFile ' because of reason:' ...
        err.message])
end
% read lines
counter = 1;
while ~feof(inFile)
    file{counter} = fgetl(inFile);
    counter = counter +1;
end
end
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