Re: loading a filename beginning with a digit

[Mike Miller]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, John W. Eaton wrote:

> Hmm.  Octave 2.1.50 creates a variables called X2x instead so that it
> will have a valid variable name.
>
> Also, with reasonably recent versions you can use
>
>   some_other_name = load ("2x.txt");


I wish I'd known about that last one.  I wanted to create a function
called "loadfile" that would allow me to do exactly that sort of thing,
but even in somewhat older versions of Octave.  The thing we were starting
on is immediately below, but I'm sure it's pretty bad.

function newmatrix = loadfile(filename)

dfi = do_fortran_indexing;
do_fortran_indexing =1;
load("-force",filename)
result = split(filename,".");
depf=default_eval_print_flag;
default_eval_print_flag=0;
newmatrix =eval(result(1,:));
do_fortran_indexing =dfi;
default_eval_print_flag=depf;
endfunction

Now I suddenly see that there is a function by Kurt Hornik called "aload"
(copyright 1997) on one of my systems, but I doesn't work for me with
Octave 2.0.14.

## Author:  KH <address@hidden>
## Description:  Load from a flat ASCII data file

function x = aload (filename, cw, rw, FS, NA, ignore_regexp)


Best,

Mike



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