Re: load problems

[courtois]

why not do this:

system(['cp -f ' Name1 ' tmp.wav']);
load -ascii tmp.wav ;
EXTRACT YOUR DATA HERE e.g. :
eval(['x' Name1 '=tmp;']); clear tmp;
system('rm tmp.wav'); % Not necessary

?


On  2 Aug, Ben Sapp wrote:
> I have a lot of ascii files with names like 10n14.wav, 12s20.wav,
> 15s6.wav that have data I want to look at in Octave.   The file has one
> value per line.  The problem is the name of the file.  Octave loads the
> variable into memory as 10n14 and the like.  Then if I try to operate on
> the data like so,  
> 
> wave_forms = reshape( 10n14 ,500,max(size(10n14))/500);
> or 
> temp = 10n14;
> 
> I get a parse error.   I tried to get octave to name the variables
> something different with, 
> 
> load "9n6b.wav" temp
> 
> but, it reports the following message:
> warning: load: loaded ASCII file `9n6b.wav' -- ignoring extra args
> 
> I thought from the documentation that this would read "9n6b.wav into
> temp.  Renaming the files is unacceptable.   Is there any easy
> workaround?  
> 
> I am using Octave 2.1.30 on IRIX 6.5   
> 
> Thanks.  
> 

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