Help reading text file in original format

I'm writing an assembler for a simple computer. I want to read assembler code and write it to machine code. But I'm running into problems importing data from the text file.

A sample text file looks like this:

// This file is a test file
@2  
D=A; Jump

// Sample comment
@3
D=D+A

Using the lines of code:

txt = textscan(filenum,'%s');
txt = txt{1,1};

Matlab returns a 15 x 1 cell containing this:

      '//'
      'This'
      'file'
      'is'
      'a'
      'test'
      'file'
      '@2'
      'D=A;'
      'Jump'
      '//'
      'Sample'
      'comment'
      '@3'
      'D=D+A'

I would like Matlab to read the file and generate a cell array where each cell is a new line from the original text file.

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

fid=fopen('file.txt')
str=fgetl(fid);
out=[];
while ischar(str)
 out{end+1,1}=str;
 str=fgetl(fid);
end
fclose(fid)
out