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Importing data in Octave


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Importing data in Octave
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:58:06 -0500

On 16-Dec-2009, Alberto Frigerio wrote:

| Hi everyone, I've a question about importing data in Octave.
| 
| I have a matrix saved in a .txt file that I would like to emport in Octave,
| using the statement "load" . But I've I problems if the matrix has character
| headers (for example, the description of the different columns). Hence, how
| can I import a mixed text-numbers matrix ? Have I to manipulate the .txt
| file?

If you have a single matrix in a file, lines beginning with % or #
characters are ignored.  So make your header use those as comment
markers and it should just work.

jwe


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