The following snippet of code puts individual characters into an array called C. This is converted into an array of uint16 integers called CN. To convert uint16 back to char use the char function as on the last line. fid-fopen(". /calgary/book1'); %opens file book! the %you may need to rename to %folder in which book1 is located %scans C=f scanf (fid,'%c',200000); in text from the %file book! into array C CN uint 16 (C); %converts characters to integers e_hat char (CN); %converts integers back to characters fclose(fid); The following snippet of code puts individual characters into an array called C. This is converted into an array of uint16 integers called CN. To convert uint16 back to char use the char function as on the last line. fid-fopen(". /calgary/book1'); %opens file book! the %you may need to rename to %folder in which book1 is located %scans C=f scanf (fid,'%c',200000); in text from the %file book! into array C CN uint 16 (C); %converts characters to integers e_hat char (CN); %converts integers back to characters fclose(fid)