Skip specific line from a text file

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MS11
MS11 on 22 Sep 2020
Answered: Walter Roberson on 22 Sep 2020
I want to read 2041 text files from a folder but mostly files contain 'error found' at the last. How can I skip that line from reading by the code. Picture of the file has been attached.

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Ruger28
Ruger28 on 22 Sep 2020
One approach using fgetl. Another would be to read the entire file in, and just search and throw out that line.
fname = '409.txt'
FID = fopen(fname,'rt');
cntr = 1;
loopEn = 1;
while loopEn
temp = fgetl(FID);
if ~strcmpi(temp,'e r r o r f o u n d') % skip line of error found
FileData{cntr} = temp;
cntr = cntr + 1;
elseif temp == -1
break;
end
end
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MS11
MS11 on 22 Sep 2020
thank you Ruger but there are 2041 files and mostly contain the same problem. How can SKIP this from all files so my code doesn't stop.

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 22 Sep 2020
If you use fopen / textscan / fclose, then you can specify 'commentstyle', 'e r r' . That tells it to skip from 'e r r' to the end of the line when it it is reading in data.

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