Please help write a script to display the first line of this text file using fgetl

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I am very new to matlab so please explain it assuming I don't know very much about it. Thanks in advance. Here is the first few lines of the text file, I would like "Header Lines = 15" to be displayed. It would also be great if you could show me how to pull up other specific lines in the file!
Header Lines = 15
Tilt Illusion Experiment
Subject Number = 1
Target Contrast = 0.50
Flanker Contrast = 0.50

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 27 Mar 2014
fid=fopen('yourfile.txt')
line=fgetl(fid)
fclose(fid)

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Jacob Halbrooks
Jacob Halbrooks on 27 Mar 2014
Edited: Jacob Halbrooks on 27 Mar 2014
You just need to use FOPEN to create a file handle, and then each call to FGETL on that handle will read a line of text. Here's code that will keep calling FGETL until the end of the file is reached:
fid = fopen('myfile.txt','r');
while ~feof(fid)
line = fgetl(fid);
disp(line);
end
fclose(fid);
Be sure to call FCLOSE when you are done with the file.
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Steve
Steve on 27 Mar 2014
Thanks! I understand the code which is great. I need to only display the first line, what would the code be for that?

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