[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37023] strread with leading white space in new lines

[Xuejin Wang]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37023>

                 Summary: strread with leading white space in new lines
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: fclxc10
            Submitted on: Fri 03 Aug 2012 10:58:48 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.6.1
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

When using textscan to read some data from a text file, if a new line starts
with a space and the previous line ends with a space, the first data in that
line becomes "NaN". 

For example, if the text file is as follows:
 0 1
 2 3
It has two lines, each line starts with a space. The following command is used
for reading the file:

data = textscan(fid,'%f %f')

The first line is always OK. If the first line has no space at its end, the
second line is also OK. However if the first line has a space at the end
(after the number "1" at the end of line 1), the first column becomes [0 NaN
3]', and the second column is [1 2]'.

I traced the problem to the function strread, line 373-380:

    ## Check for single delimiter followed/preceded by whitespace
    ## FIXME: Double strrep on str is enormously expensive of CPU time.
    ## Can this be eliminated
    if (! isempty (delimiter_str))
      dlmstr = setdiff (delimiter_str, " ");
      rxp_dlmwsp = sprintf ("( [%s]|[%s] )", dlmstr, dlmstr);
      str = regexprep (str, rxp_dlmwsp, delimiter_str(1));
    endif

My workaround is to run line 381-387 before the above lines. Maybe you'll have
a better solution for it.

Thanks,
Xuejin




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