Re: Possible bug in textread

[João Rodrigues]

On 27-10-2013 11:06, Andreas Weber wrote:
> Am 27.10.2013 11:54, schrieb João Rodrigues:
> > Hi,
> > I was experimenting with textread and got what I believe to be a bug.
> > If the contents of test.dat are:
> >
> > A B C
> > a 10 100
> > b 20 200
> > c 30 300
> > d 40 400
> > e 50 500
> >
> > the command:
> >
> > [a,b,c] = textread('test.dat', '%s %d %d', 'headerlines', 1)
> >
> > yields:
> >
> > error: textread: A(I): index out of bounds; value 1 out of bound 0
> > error: called from:
> > error:   /usr/share/octave/3.6.4/m/io/textread.m at line 75, column 3
> >
> > <snip>
> > My octave version is 3.6.4.
> Hi Joao,
> your example works for me with the current development source so I guess
> one of the bugfixes
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/log/49a5a4be04a1/scripts/io/textread.m
> fixed this. Can you wait some weeks until octave 3.8 is released?

I'm glad it's already solved. And I can wait, of course.

> btw: please stop thread hijacking (Don't replay to an existing post and
> change the subject, rather open a new thread)
> Regards, Andy
Of course, it won't happen again. Thank you pointing out the etiquette 
breach.
joao