Re: how to know number of lines from input file

[macy]

At the risk of sounding like a heretic here.  Have you looked at python? 
A colleague of mine wrapped a python script around my octave script that
did much like you asked for.

In five minutes he had a script that read a file took out lines,
interpreted variations of those lines/files and basically removed
everything but just the data that I wanted.  And, when that data wasn't in
the right format for octave, his script changed the lines to make them
octave script compatible.  And, we're talking lots of variations and some
weird data files, too.

I think the latest python version that will run on Win98 is 2.5.4

Anyway, the two together are awesome.

Robert

> I think fsikpl is an on-going work. I can't found how to download and
> install it. I will wait the fskipl release.
> Ok, I will search other ways to solve my problem.
> thanks very much.
>
> best regards,
> febty
>