load from ascii files

[Elliott Waldron]

I have been using the load function with try/catch to test whether a file has
'load'able numeric data.
However, the load function will not throw an error if the line starts with
an 'n'.

e.g., 
  
octave:90> system('echo elliott > tmp.txt')
ans = 0
octave:91> load('tmp.txt')
error: load: failed to read matrix from file `tmp.txt'
octave:91> 
octave:91> system('echo niko > tmp.txt')
ans = 0
octave:92> load('tmp.txt')
octave:93> tmp
tmp = 0
octave:94> 

Is this by design? 

Thanks,

Elliott
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