Save of lists and structs

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Nov-2004, Dr. Michael Martins <address@hidden> wrote:

| I have a problem saving a complex list with octave. Below is a function 
| ldddat, which reads experimental data and stores it into a struct; attached 
| is a small part of a data file.
| 
| To store data from different files I use the command 
| 'd(no) = lddat(datafilename)'
| creating a list d, which contains the data from different measurements and 
are 
| indexed with no. Up to here everything works perfect. However, I would like 
| to store the complete list d with additional informations. Therefore I use
| 
| save -mat-binary daten.mat d
| 
| Unfortunately I am not able to read the data again!
| 
| This is, what is written into the file
| ---------------
| {
|   B =
| 
|   (,
|     [1] = [](0x0)
|     [2] = [](0x0)
|     [3] = [](0x0)
|     [4] = [](0x0)
|     [5] = 0
|   ,)
| 
|   dat =
| 
|   (,
|     [1] = [](0x0)
|     [2] = [](0x0)
|     [3] = [](0x0)
|     [4] = [](0x0)
|     [5] =
|         7.6300e+02    2.0714e-09    1.0140e-10    9.1753e+01    3.9435e-10 
| 8.4074e+00    2.2094e+01   -1.0245e+01    7.6302e+02
| more is coming
| --------------------
| 
| But unfortunately I am getting back the following
| ----------------------------------------
| {
|   B =
| 
|   (,
|     [1] = [](0x0)
|     [2] = [](0x0)
|     [3] = -1
|     [4] = [](0x0)
|     [5] = [](0x0)
|   ,)
| 
|   dat =
| 
|   (,
|     [1] = [](0x0)
|     [2] = [](0x0)
|     [3] = [](0x0)
|     [4] = [](0x0)
|     [5] =
| 
|       763.00
| more is coming
| -----------------------------------------
| 
| Thus, there is either a problem in writing the data or reading it back. I 
| would be really nice, if this problem could be solved. I am using octave 
| 2.1.57 on a linux system.

I think this problem was recently fixed.  2.1.61 should work
correctly.

jwe



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