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Re: File size limits in textread()?


From: Stefan van der Walt
Subject: Re: File size limits in textread()?
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:50:12 +0200
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Hi Paul

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:08:54PM +0930, Paul and Sandra Koufalas wrote:
> least. Took about 20s to load that 6000 row, 10 column table.

This function should give you another factor 20 increase in speed.

> I also discovered csv2cell(), and being dynamically linked code it's 
> very fast, but I don't know how to convert cell arrays with strings to 
> plain old vanilla string arrays. For columns with numerical data, using 

Is there any specific reason that you would like to do this?  I find
that Cell arrays are much handier for manipulating collections of
strings.  For one, the string lengths are preserved.

Regards
Stefan



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