Lesson goal: Reading from a data file

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In the last lesson, you learned how to open a file. Now, let's learn how to read in some data contained in the file.

To read data from a file, you can used the file_read function, that works like this:
data=file_read(handle)
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Now you try. Run the code and see if you can read the first line of data from the file sample.dat.

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