Search an entire text file for a word

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Lauren Harkness
Lauren Harkness on 12 Oct 2017
Answered: Cedric on 12 Oct 2017
If i have a text file and am looking for the number of times a specific word appears in it, how would I go about doing that? I tried using the "contains" and "strfind" but they aren't working because its a text file not a string.

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Cedric
Cedric on 12 Oct 2017
content = fileread( 'MyTextFile.txt' ) ;
and then you can STRFIND or REGEXP or anything else on content, which is a char array.

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