NaNs in ascii

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Oct-2002, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:

| What am I doing wrong?  Here's what happens:
| 
| # echo '1 NaN' > junk.txt
| # octave
| octave:1> load junk.txt
| octave:2> disp(junk)
|   1  1
| 
| So the NaN has become a 1.
| 
| Even when I create the data in octave and use save -ascii, I can't bring
| it back in using load -ascii when there is a NaN in the matrix.

As other people noted, whether this works properly depends on the I/O
functions in the C++ library, so it is OS-dependent.

Since missing values have been added to Octave and we know that they
are not going to be handled properly on any system by default, we
might as well fix Octave to handle the Inf and NaN values too.  I've
just checked in some changes to CVS that should help.  I also posted
the patch to the octave-maintainers mailing list (you can find it in
the mailing list archive on the Octave web pages) if you'd like to try
patching your version of Octave.  But it would probably make more
sense to install from CVS, or wait for 2.1.38.

jwe



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