Re: saving data without the header

[Jean Dupont]

2012/1/24, Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Jean Dupont wrote:
>
>> 2012/1/23, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
>>> On 23 January 2012 04:08, Jean Dupont <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> When saving data produced with octave like this:
>>>> save('mydata.dat','y');
>>>>
>>>> the file mydata.dat always starts with a header like this:
>>>>
>>>> # Created by Octave 3.2.4, Fri Jan 20 20:08:08 2012 CET <address@hidden>
>>>> # name: y
>>>> # type: matrix
>>>> # rows: 69
>>>> # columns: 5
>>>>
>>>> Is there a possibility to suppress this header?
>>>
>>> Use the -ascii option.
>>>
>> save('test.dat','y') -ascii
>> This doesn't help, the header is still displayed
>>
>> Jean
>
> Try
>
>       save test.dat y -ascii
>
> or
>
>       save ("test.dat", "y", "-ascii")
>
Both of these do work! I'm a bit puzzled why the syntax
save('test.dat','y') -ascii
doesn't do the same thing.

thanks
Jean