Free-format-read function reads data of the known structure from an input, which may be either ASCII file or a string.

Individual items may be numbers, words or strings. Any character may serve as a delimiter when needed.

The same holds even for a decimal point in real numbers. The function recognizes types of the read data.

An attempt to read item after the physical end of data is signalized by returned character 127.

Requirements:

· MATLAB 7 or higher