Re: saving data without the header

[Jean Dupont]

OK, this makes sense to me
thanks

Jean

2012/1/24, Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Jean Dupont wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Think of it like this.
>
>       f (x, y) != f(x) - y
>
> Meaning you were trying to subtract "ascii" from the result returned by
> save().
>
> Ben
>
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