Re: help : how to load only a part of a matrix in octave

[Martin Helm]

Am 04.06.2012 16:49, schrieb marco atzeri:
> On 6/4/2012 4:00 PM, tharaka weheragoda wrote:
>> I think fopen also load the huge matrix into memory.What i need is to
>> load only a small part because i have only small memory.
>
> cut the matrix in slices before feeding it to octave
>
> there are plenty of tools for that job
>
> Regards
> Marco
I think that is the only solution at all, I remember there was or is
still a limitation in octave that limits the file pointer to 2GB.
Given that the matrix contains about 10^9 elements its file
representation (be it ascii or binary ) exceeds this limitation.