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Re: Reading ASCII data files into octave
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Reading ASCII data files into octave |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:05:44 -0500 |
On 16-Oct-1997, Dirk Eddelbuettel <address@hidden> wrote:
| Marco> Dear Octave users, I am a frequent matlab user, who is accustomed
| Marco> to being able to read ASCII data files simply containing one matrix
| Marco> of data, without having to first specify in the file itself the size
| Marco> of the data about to read.
| Marco>
| Marco> Is there any way to have Octave do the same, without first adding
| Marco> those four lines before each matrix contained in the file???
|
| You want to use the aload.m and asave.m functions.
I don't think you really need those now:
$ cat foo.dat
1 2.3 4.5
6 7.8 9.0
$ octave
Octave, version 2.0.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.
octave:1> load foo.dat
octave:2> foo
foo =
1.0000 2.3000 4.5000
6.0000 7.8000 9.0000
This feature was added sometime before 2.0 was released.
jwe