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Handling heterogeneous files
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From: |
John W. Eaton |
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Subject: |
Handling heterogeneous files |
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Date: |
Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:09:24 -0400 |
On 18-Jun-2009, ws wrote:
| I often have data files that have different types in their columns -- for
| example, an ISO timestamp in the first column (like "1990-03-04T14:01:01"),
| floats in the other columns, and the occasional string columns (["ok"; "ok";
| "notok"; ...]).
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| Is there an easy way to import these and deal with them in octave/
Have you looked at the textread function from the Octave Forge "io"
package?
jwe