Re: Reading ASCII data files into octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Oct-1997, Michael Martins <address@hidden> wrote:

| The method "load var.dat" has one disadvantage. Is is not possible to
| put some remarks starting with "#" into the file. Is it possible to change
| this in octave, to make it possible to load files like:
| 
| #comment1
| #comment2
| #...
| 1 2 3
| 2 3 4
| 3 4 5
| #comment ...
| 
| This would be nice, because nearly all of my data files looks like this.

I've added a note about this to the PROJECTS file.  That means that I
agree that it would be nice to have this feature, but I don't have any
immediate plans to implement it myself.  If someone else were to
provide the necessary code, however, I could probably be persuaded to
install it.

Thanks,

jwe