load ASCII file with "NaN"

[Andy Jacobson]

Howdy,

        Is there any way to recognize the string "NaN" during ASCII
        input?  I get the following surprising result:

$ cat > test.dat
1 2 NaN 3
$ octave
Octave, version 2.0.13.95 (i386-pc-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1> load test.dat
octave:2> test
test =

  1  2  2  2

octave:3> quit

        Matlab, for instance, recognizes the string "NaN" for such
        "load" commands, i.e., test = [1 2 NaN 3].


        Peace,
                Andy

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