Re: help : how to load only a part of a matrix in octave

[Francesco Potortì]

>Am 04.06.2012 16:49, schrieb marco atzeri:
>> On 6/4/2012 4:00 PM, tharaka weheragoda wrote:
>>> I think fopen also load the huge matrix into memory.What i need is to
>>> load only a small part because i have only small memory.
>>
>> cut the matrix in slices before feeding it to octave
>>
>> there are plenty of tools for that job
>>
>> Regards
>> Marco
>I think that is the only solution at all, I remember there was or is
>still a limitation in octave that limits the file pointer to 2GB.

This is not a problem if you read the file in slices using fseek and fread.

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