loading complex data in octave

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

If I have real data such as

$cat data.txt
1 2
3 4
5 6


I can load it into octave by doing

$octave -q
octave:1> A = load("data.txt")

How can I write the complex data file, so that it can be loaded into octave?

I tried something like
$cat data2.txt
1 (2, 7)
3 (4, 8)
5 (6, 10)


$octave -q
octave:1> B = load("data2.txt")
error: load: failed to read matrix from file `data2.txt'
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1, column 3

Any idea how to make this work?

thanks
raju

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