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Re: handling strings
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Stefan van der Walt |
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Re: handling strings |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:38:40 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Mike,
To read in the data, you might want to take a look at 'textread' in
octave-forge (recently, a C++ version was submitted).
It shouldn't be difficult to modify it to do your string comparisons as
well.
Regards
Stéfan
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:38:01PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> This is a seemingly simple problem but I find it hard to deal with in
> Octave (probably because there is some neat trick that I don't know).
> Here is the bare bones of it:
>
> I have a file with strings delimited by any number of consecutive spaces
> and/or tabs. The line may be padded with some spaces or tabs at either
> end that should be ignored. I want to be able to read in the file as an
> array of strings. Is that even possible?
>
> Once I have the data in memory, I want to be able to find the array
> elements containing strings that match other strings in the array. Let's
> call the array "A". I would then want to do things like
>
> find(A==A(2,3))
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- handling strings, Mike Miller, 2005/09/12
- Re: handling strings,
Stefan van der Walt <=