Re: Editing .txt file in Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Mar-2010, Stefan Neumann wrote:

| Does this assume that in column 1the letter "m" occurs in every line, no
| other letter and no number without letter?
| And in column 2 always "n" ?

Yes.

| What happens if there are different letters in the same column, for example
| mixing "milli" and "micro" or having geographical coordinates with "E" and
| "W"?

Then you need to do something more complex, like reading the data as
text and parsing it in some way, or preprocessing it as others have
suggested.

jwe