Re: Loading a matrix from ASCII file (avoiding scripting?)

[Jean-Michel besnard]

you should dlmread/dlmwrite

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:58:46PM +0200, Mauro Casadei wrote:
> Hi all !
> 
> I am a newcomer to Octave and to this list, so this is my chance to say hi
> to everybody ! :-)
> 
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> My problem is that I would like to be able to load into arrays and/or
> matrixes some plain, tab-delimited real/integers data.
> 
> The file format would be something like the following:
> 
> 0.0 1.0 3.0
> 1.0  2.5 5.1
> 
> 
> I have browsed through both the manuals AND the archive of this list, and
> tried the suggestions but I could not find a suitable working solution.
> 
> For example, if I issue the command
> 
> Load ?xxx.txt?
> 
> I recieve the following output:
> 
> >> load "xxx.txt"
> >> x = ans
> error: `ans' undefined near line 3 column 5
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 3, column 3
> 
> The file ?xxx.txt? is in the correct location (I verified it using the ?ls?
> command).
> 
> I am using Octave for Windows, and I downloaded and installed directly the
> binaries version for Win (octave-forge-windows), available at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave.
> 
> It would great to able to load a matrix without scripting, with a single (or
> maybe 2) command... :)
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> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks all !!
> 
> Mauro
> 
> 
> 
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