Re: : new to octave, confused about load(), dlmread et cetera

[justin.cress]

forkandwait wrote:
> 
> 
> Matlab's dlmread puts zero into every empty or unparseable field, so one
> has to
> compensate for it.  (Yes, this is UTTERLY LAME behavior, they should be
> NaN, but
> for compatibility we follow it. str2double() might be useful in a loop
> that
> reads lines, as it allows for subbing NaNs for empties.)
> 
> 

Cool, but, what if the data includes entries that are legitimately zero...
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forkandwait wrote:
> 
> (not the original poster, but an interested party in octave data handling,
> which 
> leaves a lot to be desired at the moment) 
> 
>> Great code, why do you grab the first two lines? in case headers spill
>> over? 
> 
> dlmread snarfs everything unless you tell it where to start (the code
> below code 
> have used a parameter to tell it to start reading at the second line.
> 

Understood, but, why not just grab line one?  That's where the variable
names should be. The OP's code fget's the first two lines and puts them in
arrays, i was just curious why. 

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