Re: save function

[Paul Kienzle]

Try dlmwrite from octave-forge.  Use a delimiter of ' ' because the
default is ','.

- Paul

On Mar 6, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Paul Kienzle wrote:
>
> > You can save multiple variables in the same file.  Load will load all 
> > of the variables, either into the current namespace using 'load file' 
> > or into the elements of a structure using 's = load file'.
>
> That is a reason to have the feature, but it is not a reason to impose 
> it on all users for every data file they save.  We often create data 
> files in octave to be imported into other programs.  It would be very 
> nice if we could save in ascii format without the header lines.  
> Something like this would do:
>
>   `-ascii2'
>         save the data as plain text without Octave header information
>
> Haven't we had a lot of questions/complaints that would be resolved by 
> the addition of this feature?
>
> Maybe this would work only for 2-d arrays (matrices), but that is 
> often the sort of thing we are trying to save:  Table data where rows 
> are records and columns are fields.  Octave save -ascii does what we 
> want except that it has those extra initial lines that must be removed 
> by some external program before we can use the data.
>
> Mike



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