loading a data file

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Apr-2001, Gabriel Florit <address@hidden> wrote:

| I collected data in a text file. I load it with the load command. 
| Whos -variables gives
| 
| prot  type               rows   cols  name
| ====  ====               ====   ====  ====
|  wd   matrix            10001      2  7strun
| 
| 
| But when I try to manipulate it, like 
| 
| >>time = 7strun (:,1)
| 
| I get the following:
| 
| >>time = 7strun (:,1)
| parse error:
| 
| >>> time = 7strun (:,1)
|                  ^
| Is there something I'm doing wrong? The 7strun variable is in ASCII format.

The name "7strun" is not a valid variable name.  Valid variables must
match the pattern "[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*".  Unfortunately, load
doesn't properly check for this.  Any volunteers to fix this?

Thanks,

jwe



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