Re: Newbie question: textread versus textscan

[c.]

On 16 Oct 2010, at 20:31, John Helly wrote:

> Hi.
>
> 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>
>
> Cheers.

If you want to use textread in version 3.2.3, you need to install the  
package io-1.0.13 from octave-forge:

http://octave.sourceforge.net/io/index.html

if you use Octave.app 3.2.3 on OSX 10.6, before installing packages  
you may need to hack the mkoctfile script as described here:

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Install-Image-package-on-Mac-OS-X-td2551165.html

c.