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Re: fscanf
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Thomas Walter |
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Re: fscanf |
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Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:35:12 +0200 |
>>>>> "John" == John W Eaton <address@hidden> writes:
[snip]
John> Yes, the bug is in the docs. It should read:
John> [A, COUNT] = fscanf (FILENUM, FORMAT [, SIZE])
John> Read from FILENUM according to FORMAT, returning the result in the
John> matrix A. SIZE is optional. If present, it can be one of
John> Inf : read as much as possible, returning a column vector
John> (unless doing all character conversions, in which case a
John> string is returned)
John> NR : read up to NR elements, returning a column vector
John> [NR, NC] : read up to NR x NC elements, returning a matrix with
NR rows
John> [NR, Inf] : read as much as possible, returning a matrix with NR
rows
In the cases '[NR, NC]' and '[NR, Inf]':
Shouldn't it be
'[NC, NR]' and '[NC, Inf]':
because if you have an ASCII-table of data the data with in a line go
into a column. I always assume NR = 'number of lines in the data
file' and NC = 'number of columns in a line'.
[snip]
Bye
Thomas
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- fscanf, Thomas Walter, 1999/04/13