Reading text from a txt file into a cell array

The text file (trial.txt) is as follows:

line1

line2

line3

and I used k = fileread('trial.txt') to get the text into a cell array 'k'. Now the problem is, it takes the whole text as a single line. But I want it to be separate rows in the array (for each new line). Am not sure about how I should do that. I tried using textscan also and ended up getting nothing from the text file. My knowledge in MATLAB is limited. Please help me out of this. Thanks

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You can use regexp with splitting. Please see this example

Answer 2

[Matt Fig]

What does the data on each line look like? Does it follow a pattern? Post one of the lines if all lines follow a similar pattern, because you should be able to do this with TEXTSCAN.

Answer 3

[Manikandan]

The text looks like this, a simple paragraph.

The various fields that the tool covers:

Fluid machinery

Electro mechanical devices

etc

I used textread command with newline \n for whitespace. Now it works fine. Thanks much for your reply Walter and Matt.