Re: Loading ASCII data files quickly

[macy]

> Ok, but this requires sed to be available. My code needs to work with
> non-unixy machines, too.
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> Matthias Brennwald, Käferholzstrasse 173, CH-8046 Zürich, +41 44 364
> 17 03
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You say a 'few' files?  I just strip off the headers with a text editor:
Notepad, Wordpad, Scilab, etc and then name the stripped file something
simple like d.txt  Then read in d.txt, convert to the variable names I
really wanted, then save the variables using octave with the new name as
.bin file so it's faster next time.

Only works well if it is a 'few' files.

Else, bite my tongue, try python, it's awesome at file manipulations
pre-octave use.

Robert