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

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Aug-2009, Rob Mahurin wrote:

| On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
| > On Aug 10, 2009, at 5:32 PM, address@hidden wrote:
| >> 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:
| >
| > ------
| > 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>
| > ------
| >
| > What am I doing wrong?
| 
| On my system, dlmread doesn't expand tildes:
| 
| > octave:6> dlmread ("~/tmp.txt")
| > error: dlmread: unable to open file `~/tmp.txt'
| > octave:6> dlmread ("/Users/rob/tmp.txt")
| > ans = [...]

I checked in the following change.

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/56e850e3b06f

Thanks,

jwe