From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Sep 11 12:51:10 1997
Subject: Re: cannot enter a large matric - line size limitations?
From: sshteingold at cctrading dot com
To: <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 97 13:50:15 -0500


     Just in case:if I paste just the first 7 lines from mx.m, I get 
     everythinf fine (again, the prompt is clobbered on the screen):
     
     <1.596, 1001.67004, 1257.4712, 2610.2913, 48.436954];
     <80.76357, 203.16882, 259.65863, 537.1962, 9.821564];
     <542224, 11.841578, 14.796204, 30.697283, 0.5724862];
     <5916, 0.9511309, 1.2208148, 2.5233095, 0.045971695];
     <222.19884, 249.65176, 314.6108, 652.4124, 12.07137];
     <76.4013, 759.94995, 956.4994, 1983.6722, 36.744934];
     <9.94995, 853.83026, 1075.0208, 2229.3926, 41.28362]]
     a =
     
      Columns 1 through 6:
     
        1.1767e+03   2.3777e+02   1.3914e+01   1.1118e+00   2.9284e+02   
     8.9160e+02
        2.3777e+02   4.9238e+01   2.7817e+00   2.3123e-01   5.9468e+01   
     1.8076e+02
        1.3914e+01   2.7817e+00   1.6663e-01   1.2990e-02   3.4592e+00   
     1.0542e+01
        1.1118e+00   2.3123e-01   1.2990e-02   1.0890e-03   2.7846e-01   
     8.4616e-01
        2.9284e+02   5.9468e+01   3.4592e+00   2.7846e-01   7.3010e+01   
     2.2220e+02
        8.9160e+02   1.8076e+02   1.0542e+01   8.4616e-01   2.2220e+02   
     6.7640e+02
        1.0017e+03   2.0317e+02   1.1842e+01   9.5113e-01   2.4965e+02   
     7.5995e+02
     
      Columns 7 through 10:
     
        1.0017e+03   1.2575e+03   2.6103e+03   4.8437e+01
        2.0317e+02   2.5966e+02   5.3720e+02   9.8216e+00
        1.1842e+01   1.4796e+01   3.0697e+01   5.7249e-01
        9.5113e-01   1.2208e+00   2.5233e+00   4.5972e-02
        2.4965e+02   3.1461e+02   6.5241e+02   1.2071e+01
        7.5995e+02   9.5650e+02   1.9837e+03   3.6745e+01
        8.5383e+02   1.0750e+03   2.2294e+03   4.1284e+01
     


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Subject: cannot enter a large matric - line size limitations?
Author:  "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> at INET
Date:    1997-09-11 11:20


On 11-Sep-1997, sshteingold at cctrading dot com <sshteingold@cctrading.com> wrote:
     
|      I have a 10x10 matrix (in a file) and I cannot set an octave variable 
|      to it. I can do
|      octave> A=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10;1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10; etc...
|      and get a 10x10 matrix, but I cannot use the actual numbers I have. 
|      I can enter 7 lines and get a 10x7 matrix fine, and I can enter the 
|      8th line separately, but if I try to enter all 10 lines or just the 
|      first 8 of them, I fail - without any error message. Octave doesn't 
|      print anything, it just returns a prompt and A is empty (A <enter> 
|      gives no response from octave at all!).
|      Apparently my numbers - ranging from 1000 to 0.001 - take up too much 
|      space on the line? Or there are some other limitations?
     
No, there are no such limitations built in to Octave.
     
There may be a bug here but it is difficult to tell.  Can you please 
send a precise test case so that someone can attempt to reproduce the 
problem?
     
Thanks,
     
jwe