Re: OT: why loadcsvfile was: How to use passed Octave string parameters in C code from an Oct file

[Terry Duell]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:40:09 +1100, mpender <address@hidden>  
wrote:

[snip]

> Andreas Weber-3 wrote
> > Why do you want to implement a function to load csv files? Do you know
> > that there is already csvread and csvwrite in octave-core?
>
> Yes; I started by trying those and found that the csvread routine does   
> not
> work well with the format of the files I am using.  The first comma
> separated value in the file is an alphanumeric field that I need to   
> preserve
> and csvread always attempts to interpret it as a number and turns it  
> into a zero.

The io package on Octave-Forge (I think it was mentioned earlier), has  
csv2cell
and cell2csv. These functions should cope with your csv data.

Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell