Re: Textread from io package

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Daniel Arteaga <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear PetrSt,

Al 10/04/13 14:18, En/na PetrSt ha escrit:

Daniel Arteaga-2 wrote

[Trial Event_Type Code
Time]=textread('test.log','%d%s%s%d%*[^\n]','headerlines',5);

In Octave 3.6.2 raises an error (both tested in Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows)

1) What type of error? First error I got was related to absence of number of
repeating. Despite the manual to textread it seems that this input argument
is not optional, so textread(file,format,[],options), or similar, must be
specified.

I noticed this first error. That there is a bug whenever you only specify 'headerlines' and not any other option.

2) Textread doesn't return single argument. Equal number of outputs to
format specifier must be given instead.

I think that was a problem of automatic line wrapping in the email client. I meant:

Trial Event_Type Code  Time]= ...
textread('test.log','%d%s%s%d%*[^\n]','headerlines',5);

3) It doesn't work anyway. I tried also textscan with similar result, i.e. I
got the output but the parsing was incorrect. Even adding 0\t to several
first lines to got the same formating for those lines didn't help.

Same happened to me

glad the manual code worked, but has this reveled an actual bug in textread?