Re: textscan wanted

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 20, 2010, at 4:53 AM, Dr. Johannes Zellner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've a bunch of matlab files which use textscan.
> 
> I don't want to replace all textscan calls with something like fscanf but I'd 
> rather like to have an octave function which implements textscan().
> 
> Does anyone have a textscan implementation?
> 
> regards,
> 
> -- 
> Johannes.

I've opened a ticket in the bug tracker.

        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?31380

For now, have you looked at using textread() instead? Unfortunately, textread() 
is not fully compatible with the ML version.

The syntax for ML's textscan is ...

C = textscan (fid, 'format') 
C = textscan (fid, 'format', N) 
C = textscan (fid, 'format', 'param', value) 
C = textscan (fid, 'format', N, 'param', value) 
C = textscan (str, ...) 
[C, position] = textscan (...) 

If you don't require the input "N", it should be straight forward to modify 
scantext() to implement textscan(). A quick fix would support the limited 
syntax below.

C = textscan (fid, 'format') 
C = textscan (fid, 'format', 'param', value) 
C = textscan (str, ...) 

Would that be useful to you?

Ben