How to Load a Binary File without translation

I have a file which is binary data from in instrument. I want to load the data into matlab and then do some searches on it, comparing against some hex strings. I cannot seem to load the file. I have tried for example:

fread(fileID)
fread(fileiD,'int')
 a=fscanf(fileID,'%x %x %x %x %x %x')

These seem to store the file as 3 digit ASCII encoding numbers. Not what I need here-just the raw data. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Thanks,

Fritz

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Is it a file stored on disk? If so then

a = fileread('YourFileName.txt');

If you are reading it from an instrument then loop using fgetl(fileID) until you determine that you have reached the end of that output.

[Fritz Sonnichsen]

Thanks Walter!