My issue with textscan, can anyone help?

I have a textfile that consists of 174 stopWords and it is structured as shown ,

a

about

above

after

against

all

am.... and so on

fid = fopen('stopwords.txt');
stopWords = textscan(fid,'%s');

This is the code I wrote to make the textfile into a cell array but it is making the variable stopWords a 1x1 cell that contains the 174x1 cell of stopwords inside it. How would I edit my code to make my variable stopWords just be a 174x1 cell array?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

stopWords = stopWords{1};

Or you could use a different approach:

stopWords = regexp(fileread('stopwords.txt', '\s+', 'split'));
if isempty(stopWords{end}); stopWords(end) = []; end

The isempty() test has to do with the fact that after the last word in the file there might be whitespace or newline.