Re: Help-octave Digest, Vol 41, Issue 22

[Matthias Brennwald]

On Aug 10, 2009, at 5:32 PM, address@hidden wrote:

Message: 6
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:02:03 +0200
From: Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Loading ASCII data files quickly
To: Matthias Brennwald <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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I've got a few data files with a short header followed by two colums  

of data (see example below). The header data is marked by '*' signs,  

like this:

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* TMD data written by MATAA on 10-Aug-2009 15:37:39

* MSW, 0 deg., no filter

0 -6.49888e-08

1.04167e-05 -1.77097e-07

2.08333e-05 2.53872e-07

3.125e-05 9.02216e-07

4.16667e-05 1.13457e-06

Have you tried dlmread?

Uhm, I just did. I put my example data from my original message into a text file (~/Desktop/testy.txt) and tried the following:

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octave:56> dlmread ('~/Desktop/testy.txt');

error: dlmread: unable to open file `~/Desktop/testy.txt'

octave:56> dlmread ('~/Desktop/testy.txt',' ',2,0);

error: dlmread: unable to open file `~/Desktop/testy.txt'

octave:56> 

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What am I doing wrong?

Matthias