Re: reading text into octave

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 03/29/2011 10:47 AM, senator wrote:

> here is the  sample data I made to learn how to do this:
> 14860,20110301,0051,11,CLR, ,10.00,
> 14860,20110301,0151,11,SCT022, ,10.00,
> 14860,20110301,0251,11,CLR, ,10.00,
> 14860,20110301,0351,11,CLR, ,10.00,

Please say more about what version of Octave you are running, on what 
OS, and what errors you're seeing. On my Linux computerOCTAVE_VERSION 
returns ans = 3.2.4, and when I copied your data into a file, and did 
csvread('x') I got ans =

      14860   20110301    51      11     0     0      10 0
      14860   20110301   151      11     0     0      10 0
      14860   20110301   251      11     0     0      10 0
      14860   20110301   351      11     0     0      10 0

Which seems correct modulo the strings are not supported as input data 
and treated as zeros.

> so far i am getting errors , sometimes the errors mention dlmread even
> though i am using csvread?

Because, as the manual says, csvread uses internally dmlread so if there 
are input reading errors they pop up in dmlread.