How to out a txt file that contains specific lines from an input text file with vector of line numbers

I am trying to out some specific lines plus an extra empty line at the end in a text file. The initial input was a text file and a vector input that has the line numbers of the lines that I am supposed to take out from the input text. for example-

inputs file is in format

1| smart

2| intelligent

3| dumb

4| silly

and vector=[2 3]

the output will be the lines representing the vector number which is

1| intelligent

2| dumb

3|

the last line is gonna be empty. How to do this?

Answer 1

[Sahithi Kanumarlapudi]

‘newline’ could be used to insert a newline in a text file.

You can refer to a similar problem of reading specified lines from a text file in the following link

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/306876-how-do-i-read-only-a-specific-line-while-reading-a-text-file-in-matlab

For more information on ‘newline’ refer to the following link

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/newline.html

Hope this helps!