Re: advice / help needed for reading formatted text (textscan, strread, & textread)

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:18 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 25-Oct-2011, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> | To better understand who textscan works I've put together a script
> | that runs on Matlab.
> | 
> | Eventually, I'd like to convert these to tests for Octave's textscan
> | (many would be xtests).
> | 
> | In the meantime, if you return to working on this, these tests may
> | be useful in understanding how ML behaves.
> 
> Yes, I do intend to return to textscan, but I haven't had time for it.
> 
> Thanks for writing the tests, I think that will help a lot when I'm
> finishing up my version of textscan.
> 
> jwe

John,

As Phillip works on improving m-file implementations of strread, textread, and 
textscan, I'm updating my test script to document ML's behavior. Once he is 
done, I'll likely add some of these tests to the textscan m-file.

When you get around to working on textscan, let me know and I'll send you the 
final test script.

Ben