# and % in Ascii matrix files

[John W. Eaton]

On 12-   -2001, Michael Pronath <address@hidden> wrote:

|  Do the symbols "#" and "%" for comments always mean the same?
|  When I write a Ascii data file from another program and I want
|  to read it into octave with "load", there is a difference:
|  If I use "#" as a comment sign in the data file
| 
|    # name: s
|    # type: matrix
|    # rows: 200
|    # columns: 11
| 
|  then I can put more than one matrix into a file.  If I use "%" instead:
| 
|    % name: s
|    % type: matrix
|    % rows: 200
|    % columns: 11
| 
|  it works only for a single matrix per file.
| 
|  Is this intended?

I think this is fixed in 2.1.35.

jwe



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