Re: Newbie question: textread versus textscan

[Andy Buckle]

> Environment: OSX 10.6.4, Octave 3.2.3
>
> I'm just trying to switch from Matlab to Octave and am having trouble with 
> replacing textscan with textread.  I've checked the usual places for info and 
> am under the impression that textread should exist and work but it doesn't 
> seem to exist.  Where am I going wrong?
>
> octave-3.2.3:1> textread()
> error: `textread' undefined near line 1 column 1
> octave-3.2.3:1>

"textread is not part of Octave 3.2.x. ... The 3.3+ version has textread, ..."

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/read-only-a-certain-number-of-lines-using-textread-td2330519.html

The development version has textread

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