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Re: Large Ascii Files and "textread.m"
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Large Ascii Files and "textread.m" |
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Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:54:52 -0700 |
On Monday, July 07, 2008, at 02:43PM, "Michael Barton" <address@hidden> wrote:
>I'm reading a large ascii file. I want to read entire lines of the file and
>store them as strings. Also, I need to be able to reference back in order
>to read following lines. Hopefully, this example can demonstrate what I'm
>trying to do.
>
>MyAsciiFile.txt
>This is the 1st line of the file.
>This is the 2nd line of the file.
>This is the 3rd line of the file.
>
>I/O CODE:
>MyFileID = fopen("MyAsciiFile.txt", "r");
>StringLine1 = SomeTextReadingFunction(MyFileID);
>StringLine2 = SomeTextReadingFunction(MyFileID);
>StringLine3 = SomeTextReadingFunction(MyFileID);
>
>IN OCTAVE MEMORY:
>StringLine1 = "This is the 1st line of the file."
>StringLine2 = "This is the 2nd line of the file."
>StringLine3 = "This is the 3rd line of the file."
>
>>From sources online, the "textread" should accomplish this. When I run "doc
>textread", Octave finds no entries. I'm using version 3.0.1 on XP with out
>cygwin. Any suggestions?
>
You'll need to install the "io" package.
http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html
If you aren't familiar with installing packages, type "help pkg" at the octave
prompt.
Ben