Re: text and numbers

[Daniel Heiserer]

Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
> 
> What's the best way to input text and data from the same file?
> 
> This does not work:
> 
> data = [
> 'name1' 12 34
> 'name2' 56 78
> ];
> 
> I want to input a structure that has both text and numbers, and then
> separate out submatrices.  Of course I can use perl and friends to
> separate them into two files and input them separately, but that
> introduces consistency issues.
> 
> I remember asking this question about matlab once, but can't locate the
> answer now.  Is octave behaving similarly to matlab in this regard?
> 
> Thanks.

1)
Try fscanf and friends. 
2)
The fastest way probably ist to do a 

fread;reshape according to "\n" extract the columns you want and do a
eval or fscanf on
it to get the numerical values if wanted.
3)
For such things I NEVER go into octave or matlab. 
Perl is the fastest AND most convenient way to do that. 
Just include a perl script via "system" in a m-file which produces
some files "/tmp/a.ascii, /tmp/b.ascii" and an additional m-file
which says: "load /tmp/b.ascci;load /tmp/a.ascii" 
and so on.

Example:
#my m-perl files
system("myperl.pl stuff");
loader

#loader
load /tmp/b.ascci;load /tmp/a.ascii


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