Re: Very slow reading of a 2D matirx

[Paul Kienzle]

On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:37 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 21-Oct-2005, Paul Kienzle wrote:
>
> | If you install the data in the same directory as the script then you
> | should be able to do:
> |
> |       x = load(file_in_loadpath('script_data'))
>
> This will usually work, but I think it will fail if the script was
> invoked with something like
>
>   source ("/some/directory/that/is/not/in/the/loadpath/script-file.m");
>
> Should Octave export a variable that holds the full name of the
> current script (or even function) file while it is executing?

That would be useful in some circumstances, but I wouldn't want every 
function invocation to be slower just to support it.

- Paul



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