Probable xlsread bug

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Dec-2007, Olivier Lefevre wrote:

| If you read in, e.g.,
| 
|     6.9,5.2,6.3
|     7.3,,6.2
| 
| (that is, the tabbed equivalent) the 3x3 matrix that comes out is not
| 
|     6.9 5.2 6.3
|     7.3 NaN 6.2
| 
| as you'd expect but
| 
|     6.9 5.2 6.3
|     7.3 6.2 NaN
| 
| i.e., I assume it skipped the missing value and the NaN that comes
| out in the back is the padding needed to make the array rectangular.
| Thus you'll (usually) get the right number of NaNs but in the wrong
| places!
| [...]

If you are reporting a bug, please send the report to an appropriate
list instead of complaining here.

Also, the xlsread function is not part of Octave, so please report the
bug to the maintainer of whatever package it is that xlsread belongs
to.

Thanks,

jwe