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+#' @title Read line from file, removing newline characters
+#' @description Equivalent function to its homonymous Matlab equivalent.
+#' @param file file to be read
+#' @return If the file is nonempty, then fgetl returns tline as a character vector. If the file is empty and contains only the end-of-file marker, then fgetl returns tline as a numeric value -1.
+#' @author Waldir Leoncio
+#' @export
+fgetl <- function(file) {
+	# ==========================================================================
+	# Validation
+	# ==========================================================================
+	if (file == "") return(-1)
+	# ==========================================================================
+	# Determine next line to be read
+	# ==========================================================================
+	if (is.null(attr(file, "last_read_line"))) {
+		attr(file, "last_read_line") <- 1
+	} else {
+		attr(file, "last_read_line") <- attr(file, "last_read_line") + 1
+	}
+	# ==========================================================================
+	# Returning next line
+	# ==========================================================================
+	out <- file[attr(file, "last_read_line")]
+	return(out)
+}
+
+#' @title Open file
+#' @description Open a text file
+#' @param filename Path and name of file to be open
+#' @return The same as `readLines(filename)`
+#' @author Waldir Leoncio
+#' @export
+fopen <- function(filename) readLines(filename)
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