Re: Plotting data from a file containing comments as first lines

[Mark P. Esplin]

        Matlab has a function called dlmread that will do it.  The function 
dlmread 
is also in octave-forge, however it doesn't have all the functionality of the 
Matlab version.  I sent in a patch to add functionality so that it would skip 
over lines, but it didn't seem to have made it into CVS.  I could send you my 
version of dlmread.m if you would like.

        Just now I looked at the files in cvs/octave-forge/main/io and there is 
a 
dlmread.cc that appears to have that functionality.  However, I don't know 
why it didn't get built.

                         -Mark Esplin

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 06:16, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my problem:
> I would like to plot the data contained in a file beginning with
> comments... The file looks like:
>
> blabla1
> blabla2
> dsfsdsdfd
> 1       3
> -5      6
> 0       8
> 1       8
>
> Of course it would be easy if there was no comments at the beginning, I
> would just load the data typing
> load data
> and then plot it with
> plot data
>
> Is there a way to tell Matlab (or Octave, because I work a lot with Octave)
> to ignore the first 3 or 4 lines ? There must be one, but I can t find
> it...
>
> Thanks !
> Vincent
>
>
>
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