Re: ASCII file format for sparse matrices?

[Rui Maciel]

On 05/13/2011 07:44 AM, David Bateman wrote:
> Yes octave uses CCS internal and only  supports CCS when reading from 
> files. However, you can always save the dara, row and column indices 
> separately and then use

Are there any plans to support other sparse matrix input schemes in 
octave's load() command?  It is a shame that the file format is able to 
handle any order the coefficients are provided but load()'s internals 
are limited in that aspect, not to mention that they fail silently. At 
least it would be very useful to support importing sparse matrices with 
the coefficients ordered as the compressed row format, but a format that 
supported any coefficients order would be better.



Rui Maciel