How to remove \n and empty line after combine all the lines into an array

I have a txt file 'map1.txt'

1    Ai.A
2    i.i.
3    .Aii
4    AiiA

I want to concatenate all the lines of the file into an array.

                'Ai.A'
                'i.i.'
                '.Aii'
                'AiiA'

However, my arr includes ↵ and ' '

    'Ai.A↵'
    'i.i.↵'
    '.Aii↵'
    'AiiA↵'
    '     '

Can anyone show me how to remove ↵ and ' '

This is my code. Thank you for your help!!!

fh = fopen('map1.txt')
line = fgets(fh)
vec = [line]
while ischar(line)
line = fgets(fh);
vec(end+1,:) = line;
end

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Replace

fgets

by

fgetl

fgetl, Read line from file, removing newline characters

In response to comment

To remove the ending "blank" row, replace

while ischar(line)

by

while not(feof(fh))    

while not(feof(fh)) avoids reading one or more trailing empty lines, i.e. lines containing only newline characters.

To remove trailing rows that contains pure white-space add these lines to the end of the script

while isempty(strtrim(vec(end,:)))
    vec(end,:)=[];
end

[Fat Man]

thank you. I still get ' ' at the end. How can I delete it??

[per isakson]

Are you sure there isn't a last line in the file, which contains a few spaces?

[Fat Man]

The txt file has an empty line at line 5. I forgot to post it. That why I got an ' ' when creating an array. How can I remove it from my array?? Thank you

[Stephen23]

"I still get ' ' at the end. How can I delete it??"

strtrim or deblank

[Fat Man]

thank you!!

[per isakson]

Surprice! The last row are not spaces, it's nulls

>> double(vec)
ans =
    65   105    46    65
   105    46   105    46
    46    65   105   105
    65   105   105    65
     0     0     0     0

The last row is caused by one trailing empty line in combination with while ischar(line)

See the addendum to my answer.