Re: Loading tick labels from a file

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 24, 2014, at 5:16 AM, Byron Hawkins <address@hidden> wrote:

> I’m trying to make a generic octave script for generating some basic plots, 
> and I need to load the tick labels from a file. This works for numeric labels:
>  
> tick_labels = dlmread(args{4})
>  
> But when I have a text label like “1K”, it shows up on the axis as “0”. I 
> tried a variety of other loading functions, but the result was the same. Is 
> there a way to specify that the contents are text and should be treated as if 
> quoted? Thanks for your help.
>  
> Byron

Can you give us an example of the file you are reading?  Does it contain all 
labels with double quotes on one line? Or one label on each line without any 
quotes, or something else?

Ben