parsing system call output

[Derek Tsui]

Hi, does anyone know of a function or way to parse the output returned from a system call? I am using system to query mysql db.

 

Example

[status, output] = system ("mysql -u root -N -e 'SELECT * FROM t' ");

 

disp(output) would return something like
0       10      1021    5       11      1       1
0       10      1021    5       15      1       1
0       10      1021    5       16      1       1

 

But if I do size(output) it is [1 x] , one dimensional.

 

I am trying to parse output and put the values into a matrix. Could anyone help?

Thanks,
Derek