Re: comment in data file?

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:25:32AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> However, I would like to add some comments to the file but I haven't
> been able to do so, for example: 
> 
> # created by 
> # name: Y
> # type: matrix
> # rows:  100
> # columns: 5
> # my comment 
> 
> fails to load the file 

That is probably the only point where you cannot insert a comment.
Use comments before name: or after the matrix numbers, i.e.

# Comment in my file

# Created by Octave 2.1.71, Wed Feb 01 17:44:21 2006 SAST <address@hidden>
# name: a
# type: matrix
# rows: 1
# columns: 3
 1 2 3

# comment in my file

# name: b
# type: matrix
# rows: 3
# columns: 3
 1.40333425641537 1.80747915546884 -0.981544355727542
 0.360165103047108 -0.0395738838669912 -0.667367407594073
 -0.75687980337846 0.521332903030514 1.66887960566729

# comment in my file

Regards
Stéfan



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