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

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justin.cress <boywonder410 <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> Cool, but, what if the data includes entries that are legitimately zero...
> (female = 1 if female, 0 if male)

Then that data is lost.  Not good, but conformant with Matlab.  Workarounds
include subbing a weird number (-999) in the data for empties, str2double, etc.

> > 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.
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> 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. 

Oh funny, I assumed his data was like mine, with a description and a
variablename line (2 total)...  Don't know then.  Maybe to see how wide it is or
how the numbers are formatted?