How can I go through a file, analyze specific words, state which line the those words appear in, which column they start at, and what is the actual line that contains the word?

I have to:

1. Open and read a file.

2. Go through each specific word/phrase I am given (one word is case sensitive, the other two are not) and find:

-Which line do these words appear?

-Which column do these words start at?

-What is the actual line that contains this word?

3. Provide a nicely formatted printout to report the above findings.

4. After all of this, I must close the file.

So for example, if the text file is named "file.txt" and the 3 words I am looking for are

Tree (case sensitive)

roller coaster (not case sensitive)

silly (not case sensitive)

How would I go about doing this using while loops/strcmp/strcmpi/strread/strfind/for loops/ if statements?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

See http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fgetl.html