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FW: Skipping comments in load files


From: Joe Koski
Subject: FW: Skipping comments in load files
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:50:56 -0600
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on 10/5/04 11:21 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov at address@hidden wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Joe Koski wrote:
>> 
>>> I figured out my problem. The particular file that I picked to try as
>>> an example had a single space on the last "blank" line of the file.
>> 
>> 
> 
> As I just wrote, the problem appears to be not with blank, tab or space, but
> with other non-printable characters. I used to get from people in the MacOS
> world
> all kind of weird-looking, non-ascii text files ("file" identified them
> as UTF-16 or even UTF-32). They had some non-printable characters (^F?)
> that I had to deal with. I wonder if Joe had one of those...
> 
> At least I cannot reproduce the problem using all kind of combinations of
> linefeed, tab, space. I tried ^L, ^F, and ^Z and it brakes with any of them.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Dmitri.
> 
Dmitri,

You are correct in that it could have been some other non-printing
character, and not a space or tab at the end of the file. All I know is that
when I moved down to the last line, I could move the cursor one character to
the right and then use the delete key to eliminate the blank character.

The file came from a Linux-based data acquisition system, then to a Windows
laptop, then to a G4 Mac, then via e-mail to my G5 Mac. Somewhere along the
line, the file was changed to Mac line feeds (probably by e-mail), so I had
to reconvert to Unix line feeds to use the file with octave. Any of those
changes could have corrupted the file.

Thanks for the help.

Joe





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