Re: version & csvread

[David Bateman]

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> Hi,
>
> I am running into a problem with csvread & both tab-delimited and
> comma-separated values files. The files are read in as having one row too
> many. So far I've successfully eliminated whitespaces and strings, and
> I've confirmed that the files are read correctly in Matlab. Searching &
> Googling haven't resulted in much csvread/write info since about 2004, and
> there doesn't seem to be a definite "error here" -- does my problem sound
> familiar to anybody?
>
> In more general terms, is it better to run 2.1.71 or 2.9.3? David called
> 2.1.71 a "dead end", but the Octave page recommends that non-developer
> users should use that. I'm a newbie to Matlab, octave, & fink (and the
> command line, actually), so... who knows? It might be relevant that I have
> access to Matlab via a desktop at work, but I would really like to analyze
> my data (via octave) on my Mac.
>  
Well 2.1.x is a dead-end is the real sense that only bug-fixes have been 
applied to it since 2.1.64 and the development has been happening in 
2.9.x. At the point where a 2.9.x release is blessed as "testing" by 
John I don't expect that another 2.1.x release will happen. Whether such 
a blessed release of 2.9.x will happen soon not or depends on whether 
John is interested in stabilizing the existing 2.9 stuff or getting more 
of the features on the 3.0 todo list into 2.9. For now stay with 2.1.71, 
though in reality I find even the latest CVS of 2.9 to be quite stable...

Regards
David



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