degbound_from_maindata.m

% degreebound = degbound_from_maindata()
%
% extract the degree bound from the 'main_data' file from Bertini.
%
% copyright 2015, 2016 Daniel Brake
% University of Notre Dame
% Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
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function degreebound = degbound_from_maindata()


filename = 'main_data';

num_lines = getlinecount(filename);



fid = fopen(filename);


line_count = 0;
while line_count < num_lines
	line_count=line_count+1;
	currline = fgetl(fid);
	
	start = strfind(currline,'DegreeBound: ');
	if start
		endloc = strfind(currline,';');
		degreebound = str2double(currline(start+13:endloc-1));
		break
	end

	
end

			

fclose(fid);



end