loading data in octave ascii data format into matlab

[Thorsten Meyer]

Hello all,

I am looking for a way to load data in the octave ascii data format into 
matlab.

At work I have been using octave as my main tool to evaluate measurement 
and simulation data for years (by the way: thanks to you all for 
providing and maintaining such a wonderful tool!). Also, I really like 
the octave ascii format, as it is simple enough to still be human 
readable and powerful enough to hold even complex data structures. So I 
have been archiving lots of measurement data in octaves ascii format. 
Now, a few of my colleagues have started to use matlab for measurement 
data evaluation. So I am looking for ways to make my octave toolset 
compatible with what that matlab community does. One part of this is to 
get my data into matlab.

Of  course, I could use octave to load existing data and save them in 
matlabs binary format. However, that would require octave to be 
available on the same platform as matlab which unfortunately is not the 
case in our company network. Hence my question:

Has any of you written (or knows of) a matlab function to read the 
octave ascii data format and could give me a hint where to find one?

Thanks

Thorsten