Re: Load Command: Simple Problem, with a simple solution?

[Douglas Eck]

Hi Martin,
At least two issues are at play. 
First, octave does not keep track of data files in the
same way it keeps track of .m files. 

Octave >> ls
myFun.m     myData.mat

Octave >> which myFun
myFun is the user-defined function from the file
/home/doug/lstm/myFun.m

Octave >> which myData.mat
which: `myData.mat' is undefined

So you'll have to give the load command the full path to your
data.

Second, load() expects by default a binary file format specific
to Octave (and identical under certain conditions to that 
of Matlab). Try "help load" to see other possible formats

The following example will write a single vector with
values [1 2 3 4] the file myData.mat. loading the file
restores the vector (as variable a)

a=[1 2 3 4]
save 'myData.mat' 'a'
clear *
a
error: a undefined near line 9 column 1
load 'myData.mat'
a

PS You can build your own text files if you want to bypass
the binary file format. The command

save -ascii 'myData.txt' 'a'

Yields a text file with enough information to recreate the saved
vector 'a':

# Created by Octave 2.1.32, Fri Jan 26 10:21:30 2001 CET <address@hidden>
# name: a
# type: matrix
# rows: 1
# columns: 4
 1 2 3 4

Hope that helps!



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