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

[Roman.Griego]

> >
> > The original data was an csv export of a sql query done in excel. I
> > grabbed the first two lines because row one was my header, the second
> was
> > a related piece of data that didn't really belong with the rest of
> the
> > data. I stripped the zeros because I was making histograms from the
> data.
> > The zeros were added from dlmread to make all the rows the same
> length, in
> > my case all my data are integers greater than one.
> >
> 
> Can't you just read it directly from the Excel file then?
> There is direct .xls R/W support in octave nowadays (using the octave-
> forge
> io pkg).
> Empty cells in an Excel range are read as NaNs which -reading postings
> earlier in the thread- might come in handy, too.
> 
> Philip
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[rdgriego] 
If I do that I still have to convert the file to Tab Delimited...
I'd rather not use excel at all, however right now it is my best access to the 
SQL server I need.