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

[Martin Helm]

Am 05.06.2012 12:35, schrieb 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.
>
This is really useful to know, thanks.