Read Text file and then use the outputs in a loop

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Hi i am just learning Matlab , any direction help would be great
I have a text file that contains 1 column. In this column is file paths. Some thing like this
C:\Users\jwalkerack\Documents\MTLAB\A_file.txt
C:\Users\jwalkerack\Documents\MTLAB\B_file.txt
C:\Users\jwalkerack\Documents\MTLAB\C_file.txt
i want to load these file path strings into a list , that i can then input into a for loop and do something
So far i have this
fid = fopen('C:\Users\jwalkerack\Documents\Tiff_deminsions\In\To_Process.txt');
% Read all lines & collect in cell array
C = textscan(fid ,'%s')
Y = C{1};
Count = 0
for i=1:length(Y)
elm = Y(i);
display(elm)
display(Count)
end
When i display elm it does seem to print out the file path , but when i try and put it into the next step , it does not reconise it as being a string , is there way i can convert the elm variable to be a string/filename
thanks for your time
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KSSV
KSSV on 29 Aug 2016
Edited: KSSV on 29 Aug 2016
but when i try and put it into the next step...this is not clear..what you tried to do exactly?

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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 29 Aug 2016
Edited: Stephen23 on 29 Aug 2016
Change the parentheses to curly brackets:
elm = Y{i};
And then learn about the difference between () and {} for cell arrays:

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